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I thought the minimum score on the SAT was 400 just for showing up. Ah, if you misspelled your name you probably scored under 400. Back in my day, SAT highest score was 1600. I believe it is 2400 now.
CNN did a small research and basically found that around 16% of student athletes at major universities cannot read or write. North Carolina basketball, at least three players on the team could not read or write according to the UNC reading specialist.
The threshold for being able to read at collegiate level is 400 on the SAT and 16 on the ACT.
the schools
University of Oklahoma professor Gerald Gurney found that about 10% of revenue-sport athletes there were reading below a fourth-grade level.
Kadence Otto, who once taught at Florida State University, recalled one situation where an academic support tutor would call every week to check up on a starting player.
"I would say, 'He's not doing well. He can't read and write.' And (the tutor) said, 'Well, we'll see what we can do,'" Otto said. That stopped with a career-ending injury. "He's worth nothing to the team, and I never once heard back from the academic support adviser. He never showed up to class again, either."
I know some of you on the board have already expressed your opinion about your favorite team and you don't care if the human beings on the team can read or write. As long as your team wins you are fine. Good for you.
CNN did a small research and basically found that around 16% of student athletes at major universities cannot read or write. North Carolina basketball, at least three players on the team could not read or write according to the UNC reading specialist.
The threshold for being able to read at collegiate level is 400 on the SAT and 16 on the ACT.
the schools
University of Oklahoma professor Gerald Gurney found that about 10% of revenue-sport athletes there were reading below a fourth-grade level.
Kadence Otto, who once taught at Florida State University, recalled one situation where an academic support tutor would call every week to check up on a starting player.
"I would say, 'He's not doing well. He can't read and write.' And (the tutor) said, 'Well, we'll see what we can do,'" Otto said. That stopped with a career-ending injury. "He's worth nothing to the team, and I never once heard back from the academic support adviser. He never showed up to class again, either."
I know some of you on the board have already expressed your opinion about your favorite team and you don't care if the human beings on the team can read or write. As long as your team wins you are fine. Good for you.
