The metric used to determine how many prison beds we'll need in the future is how many children in the fourth grade can't read.

Aug 21, 2013 · 5:25 AM UTC

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@marwilliamson That one hits me hard. So true and so wrong.
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@marwilliamson “This is the world we have to change” Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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@marwilliamson @AshleyJudd Oh my...taught 4th grade 25 years.
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@marwilliamson @AshleyJudd well said Marianne. Met you at ur home w/Terry Talbot up SunsetPlaza.
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@TA_Alchemist @marwilliamson People graduate from high school illiterate. Hard to imagine but it happens
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@marwilliamson wow! Powerful reality. Is there a source I can reference for this information?
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@marwilliamson That is really sad! Y not use a metric to determine how to help the 4th graders learn to read instead? Lord help us
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@marwilliamson "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22:6