Sentences with phrase «knows poor reading skills»

Governor Haslam has wisely invested Tennessee dollars into literacy initiatives in 2016 because he knows poor reading skills are connected with unfavorable life outcomes.

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Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the EEF, said: «We know that good literacy is absolutely fundamental to success in secondary school and later in life, but your chance of leaving primary school without decent reading and writing skills is significantly increased if you come from a poor home.

When I hear / read an argument like that, I just know that Wags, GaryM, Chief, or Peter Lang are displaying poor reasoning skills — poor reasoning skills that are completely unrelated to their political ideology.