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Topic: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Topic: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

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bornacatfan
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Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/8/2014 11:12:32 PM

Interesting article.

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.

www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html

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cc-cat
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RE: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/8/2014 11:42:30 PM

The article links to another article that is focused on the father of Kevin Shorter who who played at Ohio for a year in the early 2000s and then apparently transferred. Anyone know anything else that happened to the young man? Did he enroll somewhere else? Read the outside the lines article and you will understand why I ask

Bobcat Grad 86
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RE: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/9/2014 6:47:26 AM

Very disturbing article. It does remind me of one of posters in the 90's from the old T-Comm board named "3-Ball" who never understood the difference between "are and our".

Last Edited: 1/9/2014 6:48:08 AM by Bobcat Grad 86

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RE: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/9/2014 6:59:03 AM

In many instances universities don't worry about graduating these kids because they know they'll turn pro after a year or two, so why bother. They do what they need to so the kids are academically eligible before jumping to the pros. If there were money to be made in suing the universities to do the right thing, somebody would. But there isn't.

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Mike Coleman
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RE: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/9/2014 7:34:53 AM

cc cat wrote:

He went to Ashland. I think he played out his career there and played well. Hopefully he got the degree.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/08050...

cc-cat
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RE: Cant Read Cant Rite...system wide

Posted: 1/9/2014 11:11:30 AM

Mike Coleman wrote:

cc cat wrote:

He went to Ashland. I think he played out his career there and played well. Hopefully he got the degree.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/08050...

Appears so (love Google!). His father's life and his own appear to drive the whole family. He is part of a program his mother runs:

https://gradecheck.net/public/about_us.aspx

https://gradecheck.net/public/story.aspx

Well done young man

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