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“One-Third of Fourth Graders are Functionally Illiterate”

usmcpgw Wrote: Jan 28, 2013 7:22 PM

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. During the ’80s, Iserbyt was a senior policy adviser in the U.S. Department of Education and has also written “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America,” a chronological history of the past 100 years of education reform. I was taught how to identify the resisters in my community. Those people who — good people — good Americans who have seen and know clearly these programs in the schools were not there to help our children academically.

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“One-Third of Fourth Graders are Functionally Illiterate”

The U.S. education system is failing our kids and has been for decades. Thus, the first step towards solving this problem is admitting that we have one. And we certainly do -- as AFP’s Casey Given points out in his op-ed in The Hill today:

Since 1983, the freshmen high school graduation rate has increased a measly 1.8 percent. Meanwhile, student achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress has stagnated, dropping by 1 point in reading and increasing by merely 4 points in math among 17-year-olds from the early 1980s to 2008. Today, one-third of fourth graders are...

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