Is there a constitutional right to literacy?

An interesting class action lawsuit was filed in Michigan this week. Essentially, it claims the approximately 1,000 students in the Highland Park School District have been denied the right to a basic and adequate education because the school system has failed to ensure that students are reading at grade level as required by state law. [...]

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Tim July 18th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: A Reading Life, Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Grade reading level doesn’t equal one’s literacy level

There seemed to be a lot of doom and gloom last week in the coverage of a new survey on reading in American schools. But it seems like a number of people, including at least one individual who contributed a piece for the publication, may need to look beyond the bare numbers.

Admittedly, the [...]

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Tim April 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Throwing the dictionary out of school

Too often supposed moral outrage deprives both individuals and government bodies of common sense. The latest case in point? First, a California school district removed a dictionary from all all school shelves after a parent complained about a student finding a definition of “oral sex” in it. Now, the Menifee Union School District is forming [...]

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Tim January 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life, Culture | Comments are closed | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Shotgun incident shows life has changed

Although I grew up hunting, I don’t own a gun. In fact, unless you count the .22 rifle and 20-gauge shotgun I used as a teenager that were still in my dad’s gun cabinet when he died, I haven’t owned a gun for at least 30 years. That said, the news that a Washington High [...]

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Tim December 1st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Culture, Modern Life, State and local matters | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post