Predicting a Really Jacked-Up Future
Michelle on Feb 02 2008 at 4:17 pm | Filed under: The Teaching
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That inservice that I mentioned going to yesterday? I did learn one really interesting thing.
Here is how many of the states in the US plan how many prison beds they are going to build.
They look at state reading scores. A 4th grade reading level (in high school) is how they predict who is going to end up in prison.
Of course, we need to take a really good look at what we are locking people up for. But that statistic just blows my mind. I already knew that 90 percent of the people in prison are pretty much illiterate. I had no idea they planned around it, although it makes sense in a really weird way.
