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Subject: Re: [DDN] Literacy level falls for US college graduates (fwd)
Hello David,
I am puzzled about the sample. I apologize for not having read the
whole report yet and plan to do so, but thought that I would raise a
question to those who are monitoring
Hello David,
I am puzzled about the sample. I apologize for not having read the
whole report yet and plan to do so, but thought that I would raise a
question to those who are monitoring this report and similar ones.
You indicate that the sample covered 16 years and up, with
non-English
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Subject: RE: [DDN] Literacy level falls for US college graduates (fwd)
Here is an important conclusion from a Department of Education official:
Grover J. Whitehurst, director of an institute within the Department of
Education that helped to oversee the test
At 12:41 PM 12/18/2005 -0800, you wrote:
An article in this Sunday's New York Times by David Carr, a new owner of a
video iPod, seems to confirm thehy ypothesis that those who own the newest
digital technologies tend to move away from the reading of complex materials
that develops and sharpens
Hi all,
Listened to the original webcast of this data release. A couple observations
...
We now have perhaps a clue why it took over 2 years and multiple delays of
the planned release date since the end of field work to learn anything from
this new data (and there is still more - e.g. about
Hello Sam,
Actually the assessment covered a representative sample of the adult
U.S. population, 16 years and up, some of whom were not able to ready
anything in English, and ranging up through those with graduate level
education. So it did include lots of Joes off the street.
The
level falls for US college graduates (fwd)
Hi all,
Listened to the original webcast of this data release. A couple observations
...
We now have perhaps a clue why it took over 2 years and multiple delays of
the planned release date since the end of field work to learn anything from
this new data
