Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

> > I really don't buy this as other than a very vapid excuse for why Johhny
> > and Mary graduate from highschool but still can't read. Have been born
>and
> > reared in the USA, I KNOW it can be better, even under *local* control.
>
>The point is that *generalizing* across the education system of the U.S.
>is invariably ill-informed, because *nobody* is well informed on this
>subject.  Some schools are very good, some are very bad.  Some are
>traditional, some are not.  There's no particular correlation.  Or
>maybe there is, but *nobody knows*, because nobody has done the
>research, or could afford to.
True, nor is there likely to be since the last time the US Gov even
mentioned standardized testing, the local school boards all crapped in their
pants and pitched a hissy fit.

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