So Mary Willingham is asserting her research on UNC football and basketball players shows that 8-10% of these players read below a third grade level.
The University seems to be confused about how to respond using the kitchen sink approach of asserting they don't believe her, haven't seen the data, this was an unauthorized project, etc. Then they admit they have seen the data, and that actually they own the data and it is housed in their syste,.
Willingham is a tutor in the Center for Student Success at UNC. So she works at UNC and got her masters degree at UNC. Willingham claims that she has gotten 4 death threats so far and many more "alarming" messages.
Story here.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I haven't read the research paper, but I am curious about the distribution of reading levels. What level does the bottom 50% of players read at or below?
The University seems to be confused about how to respond using the kitchen sink approach of asserting they don't believe her, haven't seen the data, this was an unauthorized project, etc. Then they admit they have seen the data, and that actually they own the data and it is housed in their syste,.
Willingham is a tutor in the Center for Student Success at UNC. So she works at UNC and got her masters degree at UNC. Willingham claims that she has gotten 4 death threats so far and many more "alarming" messages.
Story here.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I haven't read the research paper, but I am curious about the distribution of reading levels. What level does the bottom 50% of players read at or below?