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To: marcher who wrote (45867)	12/19/2005 11:08:54 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

"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. The thing that is new since my father was a boy growing up with mostly second generation immigrants is the very high percentage of students that grow up in single parent families. This NCES study shows that of the adults scoring in the Below Basic Level on Prose, 55% were not high school graduates Need I point out that people do not learn to read in high school. If you can't read by the time you are old enough to go to high school your chances of graduating high school are pretty much shot. As I pointed out with my parents neither got past the eight grade yet both had a high level of literacy. I must wonder if low Prose scores are due to sampling of recent immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries. For sure, that age group would contain far more Spanish-speaking individuals who did not grow up going to US schools, who came here as adults.