We have frequent typos and clerical issues on this blog and I take responsibility for all of them. As the saying goes – we do our best proofreading after we hit send/post. I take some solace in seeing as bad in well-known, well-funded blogs that do or could employ proofreaders. Check this out from the shop of one of the top five newspaper publishing conglomerates. The Lee Enterprises home-town newspaper. It perhaps says more about the educational problem in Iowa than the story itself. Brief comment follows.
Number proficiency/agreement continues to be a problem at QC Times
The above is what the QC Times sent via e-mail as a tease for its daily offering. Which is it, four or five?
The story is largely a hodgepodge of largely statistical BS. The only one that is meaningful in our opinion is when fourth grade reading proficiency improves. That is the key to everything.
