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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: GED is about grade 6?
You missed the punch line. These are the final grade level results: GLE and Content analysis for NYTimes Front Page 7June00 by Rick Parkany http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Resources/NYTimesGLE.htm <http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Resources/NYTimesGLE.htm> Articles came out average Fliech 12.3 Colman-liau 12.37 Bomuth 10.70 Fleish Kincaid 11.07 -----Original Message----- From: Rick Parkany [mailto:rparkany@BORG.COM] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:37 AM To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU Subject: Re: GED is about grade 6? Bob: though you missed my point, in my reply to Art last evening, I concede that the NYTimes reading level as *7th grade level* IS an urban legend (and not a canard on my part). Indeed, Bob, your anecdotal rule of thumb assessment was right on the money, as well... To begin my penance, accordingly, I have supplied the following analysis based upon sifting the 3 main articles from the NYTimes late edition today into Lotus Millennium's WordPro. Here are the results (limited though they are to 3 articles on one day--a representative, yet statistically insignificant sampling, I concede), I hope this helps, and as a penance, it's got to be better than having had my tongue cut out or my fingers lopped off! Keep well... ;-} rap. GOTO : NYTimesGLE <http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Resources/NYTimesGLE.htm> : http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Resources/NYTimesGLE.htm <http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/Resources/NYTimesGLE.htm> (NOTE: Art1: Mideast Talks Are to Reopen Next Week in the U.S. By DEBORAH SONTAG ; Art2: Corzine Defeats Florio for Senate Nomination By DAVID M. HALBFINGER; Art3: Millions Facing Rise in Rates on AT&T Calls By STEPHEN LABATON) Bob Schaeffer wrote: Rick Parkany wrote: > > Well, Art: *New*? the NYTimes used to be pegged @ *7th grade level* for > reading, as per content and form analysis. What does THIS tell you about > norms. But, then again, what, exactly, DO norms tell us, beyond how clever our > proxies for reality and the true stuff of the educational experience are? Rick and others: I've seen the statement that the NYTimes is written/edited at a "7th grade level" on this listserv several times and believe the claim is a canard or, perhaps, an urban (newspaper) legend. ...SNIP... Does anyone have any hard evidence (i.e. a citeable source) to support or dispute the reading level claim? I may just run MS Word's grammar checker -- which includes several readability measures -- on some sample NYTimes articles to see what college dropout Bill Gates says on this matter. Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU. -- "Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust! Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit / hat dir selbst das Feld bereit', auf dem du bluehen musst." Peasant, Richard A. Parkany: SUNY@Albany Prometheus Educational Services - http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ <http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/> Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA
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