{"id":27293,"date":"2011-07-16T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper-reading_skills_show_big_disparity\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:00:22","slug":"local_paper-reading_skills_show_big_disparity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27293","title":{"rendered":"Local paper&#8211;Reading skills show big disparity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of Charleston County&#8217;s high schools face a daunting challenge in educating the new crop of freshmen they will welcome this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty percent of their ninth-graders won&#8217;t be able to read better than a fourth-grader, but those students will be expected to learn and perform at a high-school level. Many of these teenagers likely will struggle to simply read the words on their teachers&#8217; SmartBoards, much less understand and analyze the information being conveyed.<\/p>\n<p>The Charleston County School Board recognized the severity of this problem last year by declaring literacy its top priority. Their decision followed a series of Post and Courier stories that revealed nearly 20 percent of the county&#8217;s ninth-graders read on a fourth-grade level or worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/16\/reading-skills-show-big-disparity\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of Charleston County&#8217;s high schools face a daunting challenge in educating the new crop of freshmen they will welcome this fall. Twenty percent of their ninth-graders won&#8217;t be able to read better than a fourth-grader, but those students will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27293\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,111,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}