CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders

[FergusWolf]

Not unexpectedly, the flagsh*p is highlighted in this piece from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

• Willingham’s job was to help athletes who weren’t quite ready academically for the work required at UNC at Chapel Hill, one of the country’s top public universities.
• But she was shocked that one couldn’t read. And then she found he was not an anomaly.
  Soon, she’d meet a student-athlete who couldn’t read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school.
• And then another came with this request: “If I could teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news, because that was something really important to him,” Willingham said.

What fun!

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