Are You Smarter than an Eigth Grader?

ALa posted this "test" this morning and I just had to see how my blog rated. Maybe the below report explains why Blogging is the new rage...though, I may only be writing at a "high school level" I definitely don't want to read information at a 6th-8th grade level. Yet, another problem with this nation...we dumb down EVERYTHING. If we keep dumbing things down--how on earth are we going to compete with nations that do just the opposite? Here's an excerpt from the article: "Today's journalists, already the most educated crop of reporters and editors ever, need more ongoing education so they can interview with sophistication, research with understanding and report with credibility, but when it's time to write Meyer suggests they shed the sheepskins and scribble their stories at a sixth- to eighth-grade level, a range he identifies as the sweet spot of newspaper readability."

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