On the NAEP, 5% of the Nation’s 4th graders score at the Advanced level, while 7% of 8th graders score Advanced.

Now of course this could have more to do with where they set cut scores and whatnot, but if the categories are accurate, then the national trend seems different than the Arizona trend (if Arizona’s test and measures are to be believed.)

I hate to sound like an intellectual snob, but I don’t think that everyone has the underlying potential to learn to read at a high level. So it’s to be expected that there will be far fewer “advanced” readers in the higher grades than in the primary ones.

Now if I can only translate that luck into the Casinos I can retire early.

btw, Idiocracy is a good bad movie. It was much better than Drillbit Taylor.

I’d ask my music guru brother but he’s somewhere in Eastern Europe.

So anyway at one point the singer describes going into a record store and asking for some Mojo Nixon. The staff said “He don’t work here.” The response: “If you don’t know Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin.”

If your video store doesn’t have PCU…you need a new video store.

(They don’t even have PCU…in fact, not a single employee ever heard of it).