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Title: Many College Athletes Read at 5th Grade Level-Report Post by: Marshal Dillon on January 08, 2014, 02:08:37 PM I find it interesting that UNC which acts like it's a paragon of integrity and high academic standing is consistently having these problems.
Quote Early in her career as a learning specialist, Mary Willingham was in her office when a basketball player at the University of North Carolina walked in looking for help with his classwork. He couldn't read or write. "And I kind of panicked. What do you do with that?" she said, recalling the meeting. Willingham's job was to help athletes who weren't quite ready academically for the work required at UNC at Chapel Hill, one of the country's top public universities. But she was shocked that one couldn't read. And then she found he was not an anomaly. Soon, she'd meet a student-athlete who couldn't read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school. And then another came with this request: "If I could teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news, because that was something really important to him," Willingham said. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 :facepalm: Title: Re: Many College Athletes Read at 5th Grade Level-Report Post by: ssmith general on January 08, 2014, 02:09:54 PM What does that mean? I was an awesome reader in the 5th grade.
I don't get it. ??? Title: Re: Many College Athletes Read at 5th Grade Level-Report Post by: Old Tider on January 08, 2014, 03:33:38 PM What does that mean? I was an awesome reader in the 5th grade. I don't get it. ??? It means they can understand USA Today but not the Wall Street Journal. Title: Re: Many College Athletes Read at 5th Grade Level-Report Post by: Marshal Dillon on January 08, 2014, 03:49:01 PM What does that mean? I was an awesome reader in the 5th grade. I don't get it. ??? :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :eyeroll: |