And they're off!
Nov. 1st, 2010 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSo it begins.
Today's word count: 1753, slightly more than the minimum daily quota of 1667.
I've actually acquired some sponsors. OMG, now I'm really going to have to stick with it.
Sponsor me! ...and I'll be your slave forever... well, maybe not. But you get to feel all virtuous and stuff.
Draft version online here.
About that literacy business: It's serious. The results of AYP testing (yes, the infamous "No Child Left Behind" program) on the schools in this area are out, and the vast majority of them, including even high schools, have failed to pass the reading requirement. This year they only needed to get a 77% pass rate in reading, yet they failed to do so. As I've been saying for a while now, literacy is on the decline in the US. This can't be a good thing. Literacy goes hand in hand with deeper analytic thought, planning, and general comprehension. It is essential to an informed electorate. You can't have good and careful elections if the voters only know what they got from television. Believe me, that isn't nearly enough, nor is it ever unbiased.
Hence the Office of Letters and Light, the charity to which I urge you to make a small donation by clicking the link above. Promoting literacy is their mission, and in the end that's a good thing for all of us.
Today's word count: 1753, slightly more than the minimum daily quota of 1667.
I've actually acquired some sponsors. OMG, now I'm really going to have to stick with it.
Sponsor me! ...and I'll be your slave forever... well, maybe not. But you get to feel all virtuous and stuff.
Draft version online here.
About that literacy business: It's serious. The results of AYP testing (yes, the infamous "No Child Left Behind" program) on the schools in this area are out, and the vast majority of them, including even high schools, have failed to pass the reading requirement. This year they only needed to get a 77% pass rate in reading, yet they failed to do so. As I've been saying for a while now, literacy is on the decline in the US. This can't be a good thing. Literacy goes hand in hand with deeper analytic thought, planning, and general comprehension. It is essential to an informed electorate. You can't have good and careful elections if the voters only know what they got from television. Believe me, that isn't nearly enough, nor is it ever unbiased.
Hence the Office of Letters and Light, the charity to which I urge you to make a small donation by clicking the link above. Promoting literacy is their mission, and in the end that's a good thing for all of us.
