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We need to leave it up to the scientists. and of course, if understand the global warming issue is affecting citizen's lives, but i don't agree with tax dollars being used on it. >> investigation, ncaa, reading levels, college athletes, below eighth grade. this is not good. watch this. >> i mean, we may as well just go to glennwood elementary school right up the street and let all the third graders and fourth graders in here. they can't read and there are no remedial options, what are the options? >> the other option is to cheat. that is correct. or to find some professor, some course of curri...

We need to leave it up to the scientists. and of course, if understand the global warming issue is affecting citizen's lives, but i don't agree with tax dollars being used on it. >> investigation, ncaa, reading levels, college athletes, below eighth grade. this is not good. watch this. >> i mean, we may as well just go to glennwood elementary school right up the street and let all the third graders and fourth graders in here. they can't read and there are no remedial options, what are the options? >> the other option is to cheat. that is correct. or to find some professor, some course of curri...

Plug is done in terms of the results you get from this program? >> well, first thanks for having us on this morning to shine a spotlight on this problem which is really critical for the country. so, you know, the key to what we're trying to do is deal with some of the statistics that are really troubling. in low-income communities across this country the average number of age appropriate books are about one book for every 300 children. >> wow. >> as compared to middle income communities where that statistic is about 13 age appropriate books for every child. and the biggest impediment, all the ...

Students. now, the florida department of education says these goals recognize that every group is not starting at the same place. here are the current reading levels. asians, 76%. you have whites at 69%. hispanics at 53% and african-american students at 38%, so some groups have much further to go. now, supporters say this is a great thing, and i'm quoting here saying: the to meet these goals for latino and african-american students, schools will have to finally and quite deliberately focus more attention and resources on them. but you might imagine there is an outcry on this thing by those who...

Investment to say focus on teacher assessment. >> but the -- right, but the nuance has always been on, okay. what do you do when you grade a student here? do you grade -- have they moved up from -- from one reading level to another reading level or are they on a fourth grade reading level? see what i mean? sometimes teachers -- this is where i think the nuance of the argument gets lost, which is, are you grading a teacher's merit pay based on, is the student reading at a specific grade level that they're supposed to be reading on because the state says this is the level, or have they made adva...