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To: GraceZ who wrote (45827)	12/17/2005 9:32:51 PM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

--brings to school more needs-- "More" refers, in part, to the increasing number of students with these needs. I was not suggesting that economic disadvantage, ethnic difference, acculturation, and lack of English proficiency are new to the this country. "Page 5, table 2 look at the high percentage of adults who lack basic prose skills between 25-39 in 2003" This NCES study shows that of the adults scoring in the Below Basic Level on Prose, 55% were not high school graduates, only 52% were born into an English-speaking family, and 35% were born into a Spanish-speaking family. Without more descriptive information about members of the 25-39 age group, I must wonder if low Prose scores are due to sampling of recent immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries. Certainly, the housing boom has brought with it many construction workers from south of our border.