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    Study Finds One-Third in D.C. Illiterate

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...TAM&SECTION=US

    I have no trouble whatsoever believeing that

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    Quote Originally Posted by uscitizen View Post
    I have no trouble whatsoever believing that
    Sadly, neither do I. I used to live there. My friends who had kids of school age sent them to private schools.
    My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am.

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    Allow me to put on my dixie thinking cap:

    Well, being as though 1/3 is merely an abstract concept I this cannot be true.

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    It was probably only 20% before the Bush crew came to town.

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    I also heard recently that only 70% of our high school students graduate from high school....

    I had no idea that 30% of our students don't graduate.... none!

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    Yep we are a lazy assed country. No wonder the immigrants outperform us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uscitizen View Post
    It was probably only 20% before the Bush crew came to town.
    lol
    "Fuck you niggers" July 11, 2009 Tinfoil explaining how conservatives are unfairly labeled as racists.

    "You deserve to be beheaded and for your head to placed on a pike, in the middle of the park, where children can see what happens to those that act the way you do." August 5, 2009 USFreedom911's response to a left leaning opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Care4all View Post
    I also heard recently that only 70% of our high school students graduate from high school....

    I had no idea that 30% of our students don't graduate.... none!
    That does sound like a lot. Where did you hear that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyT View Post
    That does sound like a lot. Where did you hear that?
    on a c-span program this past week

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    Ooh ooh I know what we should do................throw more money at the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IHateGovernment View Post
    Ooh ooh I know what we should do................throw more money at the problem.
    Actually, I think I have heard on c-span that washington dc is one of the districts that congress runs alot of their "test" programs like charter schools and the such....

    I believe alot of money has already been thrown at it and also many other type programs have been instituted in test regions there... so, I am uncertain on what could fix the situation there....

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    I've always thought that year long unisex boarding school for inner city youths would be great. Perhaps instituting exchange programs as well. The problem with a lot of people that live in poor urban areas is that they can't see beyond their neighborhoods. Its ridiculous when you talk to them at the mere suggestion of leaving.

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    I thknk a student exchange program with the middle east would be good, would make it less likely for us to attack each other and eventually bring understanding.

    we could even make it a voucher thing so the rpeublicans would like it

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    http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_baeo_t1.htm

    Table 1: Graduation Rate by State and Race

    State
    Graduation Rate
    African-America n Graduation Rate
    Latino Graduation Rate
    White Graduation Rate

    Alabama
    62%
    52%
    33%
    69%

    Alaska
    67
    58
    58
    74

    Arizona
    59
    54
    50
    70

    Arkansas
    72
    67
    48
    74

    California
    68
    59
    55
    78

    Colorado
    68
    55
    47
    75

    Connecticut
    75
    64
    53
    79

    Delaware
    73
    64
    57
    78

    District of Columbia
    59
    55
    59
    ins

    Florida
    59
    51
    52
    63


    Continued at the link above along with other Tables....

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    Any correlation between red /blue state and gradution rates ?

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