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=Literacy and National Reading Statistics, Teaching Reading: Educational CyberPlayGround=

PLEASE CITE THE **EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND** ** Ellis, Karen: "Educational CyberPlayGround" Internet. Database available online. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com. Date accessed Month day, year. **
 * If you are using MLA citing, here is an example using the "Educational CyberPlayGround" site.**

** WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? **

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION - THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS FOR LITERACY AND READING
**//9/2006 The Inspector General of the Department of Education says the Bush administration's $4.8 billion dollar a year//** ** Reading First program ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted and the conflicts of interest **.

NCLB PUBLIC DEBATE Ask the Office of Communications and Outreach any questions:
Director, Intergovernmental Affairs -- Rogers Johnson, (202) 401-0026, mailto:Rogers.Johnson@ed.gov Deputy Director -- Marcie Ridgway, (202) 401-6359, mailto:Marcie.Ridgway@ed.gov Program Analyst -- Adam Honeysett, (202) 401-3003, mailto:Adam.Honeysett@ed.gov The slimy underside of the reading bu$ine$$ doesn't care about this country. This is why nothing changes. Four major issues that should alarm educators and taxpayers alike. Every survey of California voters shows that they rank education as one of the most important problems facing the state. It's constantly No. 1 or No. 2. The latest Times poll finds it No. 2 behind illegal immigration. Democrats place it No. 1. And why not? Roughly 6.3 million kids attend 9,553 oft-maligned K-12 public schools in California. Plus, 2.5 million students are enrolled at community colleges, writes George Skelton. Taxpayers are digging deep. Counting universities, half the state general fund ($102 billion) is consumed by education. ($50 billion). In all, kindergartens through community colleges are spending $55 billion -- 75% of it from the state, 25% from local property taxes -- under Proposition 98. So a lot is at stake: tax money and children's minds. Therefore, when the question of how to improve public schools in an increasingly diverse state is allotted only two minutes in an hour-long televised candidates' debate -- the only debate of the gubernatorial campaign -- it's mind-boggling and irresponsible. Candidates were asked, "What kinds of policies would you support to improve the performance in California's public schools, in one minute?" Rather than two minutes on education, the candidates should have been required to spend 20. It might have enlightened voters and certainly would have forced the candidates to think more about how to better spend the taxpayers' billions. [[|1]] **Richard Riley** ** Former Secretary of Education ** "54 percent of all teachers have limited English proficient (LEP) students in their classrooms, yet only one-fifth of teachers feel very prepared to serve them. **Business contracts with the prison system** to underpay inmates for jobs like answering the company phone. It is very very cheap labor. For the first time ever, in five states, more is spent on prisons than on colleges, according to a new report from the [|Pew Project on the States.] Last year alone, states spent more than $49 billion on corrections, up from $11 billion spent 20 years earlier. However, the recidivism rate remains virtually unchanged, with about half of released inmates returning to jail or prison within three years. A close examination of the most recent[| U.S. Department of Justice data] found that while one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is incarcerated, the figure is one in nine for black males. For black women in their mid- to late-30s, the incarceration rate has hit the one-in-100 mark. Pew also found that in the last 20 years, inflation-adjusted general fund spending on corrections rose 127 percent while higher education expenditures rose just 21 percent. Most Unusual Prisons.
 * TWO-MINUTE DEBATE ON SCHOOLS FAIL CHILDREN & VOTERS **
 * National Assessments of Educational Progress (NAEP)** figures show that the minority differential in reading achievement is a persistent problem that has not changed in the least since 1979 (NAEP1998)
 * Department of Education recent findings indicate that U.S. schools show little “significant difference” in the performance of kids in the early grades since 1992 and literally no differences in the math and reading scores of 17-year-olds over the past 34 years.**
 * **BUSH’S FAMILY PROFITS FROM "NO CHILD" ACT**
 * 2006 More than **8 millio**n U.S. students in grades 4-12 struggle to read, write, and comprehend adequately.
 * 2004 **Three out of ten eighth graders** read at or above grade level, National Assessment of Educational Progress.
 * 2003, only **three-fourths** of high school students graduated in four years, the National Center for Education Statistics reports;
 * 2002 just over half of African American and Hispanic students graduated at all. **Source**
 * EXTENSIVE RESEARCH LOCATED IN THE LINGUISTICS AREA ABOUT //**AMERICAN ENGLISH CREOLE AND DIALECT SPEAKERS**//

** Jonathan Kozol ** contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships. Hear his [|Explanation of Modern US Education] 2005 (MP3) Kozol's purpose; to strive for a public call for social change, and to guide the cause once it has arisen. White Supremacy Is Not Color Blind PBS's 'Frontline', First aired the show 'A Class Divided' twenty years ago, its about a teacher in a small Iowa town who decided to modify her lesson plan the morning after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, and what later ensued. See for yourself why this universal lesson about racial discrimination is so unforgettable. The producers of 'Frontline' have made available new material about the show by way of an modern day interview with the teacher, Jane Elliot, who discusses the effects of the incident on her life "The need for action is desperate. **// Today, a stunning 40 percent of America's 4th graders continue to read below the basic level on national reading assessments. //** On international tests, America's 12th graders rank last in advanced physics compared with students in 18 other countries. And one-third of all incoming college freshmen enroll in a remedial reading, writing, or mathematics class. These numbers are even bleaker in ** the inner cities and poor rural areas, where 68 percent of low-income 4th graders cannot read at a basic level ** ** . ** In fact, despite $120 billion in federal spending since 1965 to raise the achievement of poor children, a wide educational attainment gap remains between rich and poor students. **//
 * Improving Education for Every Child **
 * // by Nina Shokraii Rees link no longer works //**

The deepest down turn in the educational process occurs in the fourth grade. //**      **  **

THIS MEANS if YOU HAVE FAILED to give children ** confidence that they can learn to read by the time they are 8 or 9 years old you will have lost them for life. They cannot recover ** **.**

Perspective: ** Parents and educators only have a relatively few days - a fraction of the child's whole life to get them set up for success. A school year is approximately 30 weeks and that equals around 150 days in a year, minus about 10 days for holidays or sickness and all that is left is 140. Kindergarten through the end of third grade is 4 years x 140 days = 560 days total. Your average life span is around 70 years = 25,550 days.


 * // All we have is the .02 percent of a child's lifetime to give them reading skills that will have an impact on them for the remaining 98% of their lives! //**

To me, the bias in this article is quite obvious. The language used is intended to get people riled up and angry. Phrases like: 1. slimy underside 2. doesn't care about this country 3. mind-boggling and irresponsible 4. lost them for life and 5. they cannot recover, are used on purpose because they make people angry and scared that their children are doomed to fail in almost every aspect of their lives. The writer manipulates the reader by using the colours red which indicates anger and blue which can be related to sadness. When we read in blue capital letters the word FAILED, it immediately makes us feel loss of hope. The red is used for "a stunning 40%" and "cannot read at a basic level" so that we will get angry with a system and a country that has failed us so miserably. Even the bullets that are used in front of the raw data can be seen as propaganda because they legitimize the article by making it seem like "real news" instead of just the writers opinion. We don't actually have any proof that the statistics quoted are real (at least until the sources are checked).