subtract. subtract, right. she s probably the oldest woman i ve had in this class. and she keeps coming back. so i m assuming she really wants to get this. brenda s working at a lower level. she didn t go very far in school. ain t been in school since god knows when, so a lot of this stuff i m not up on. okay, so it s a difference again. right? subtract. subtract, good. she says she s really motivated this time. she s got a lot of work to go, a lot of i mean, she can t be working at third and fourth grade level and be ready to pass a high school equivalency in a matter of months. but maybe down the road. coming up all the new people that are coming in here are flocking to me. i don t know why. hopefully it s not for my commissary. sabrina monahan learns that having support from the outside can be body an asset and a danger in jail. and the emergency response team is deployed to remove a troubled inmate from his cell.
we saw very personal side of president obama earlier this week when he announced a new initiative aimed at addressing the unique obstacles to success that young black and brown men face. as the president pointed out, young men and women of color are systemically and structurally blocked from the tools, the resources, and opportunities to make good choices for their lives and succeed. now, the statistics are staggering. two-thirds of students who can t read proficiently by the end of third grade will end up in jail or welfare. more than 70% of america s inmates can t read above a fourth grade level. nearly 85% of juvenile niles in the court system are functionally illiterate.
revenue athletes read below a fourth grade level have gotten a lot of reaction, good and bad, since they aired on cnn on tuesday. we may as well go over to glennwood elementary up the street and let all of the fourth graders in here or third graders in here. although the admission s department may disagree, 60% of this particular data set of athletes, if they entered our community college system here in north carolina, they would have to take one, two, or three remedial reading classes before they could enter the two-year curriculum at a community college. reporter: they say they don t believe she tutored athletes who couldn t read. in a statement, the university of north carolina said it can t comment on her research because officials, quote, have not seen that data. university officials have asked for that data but those requests have not been met.
those reading below the fourth grade level at literally 8%. and then you have those between fourth and eighth grade at 60%. here is the bottom line, athletics mean a lot to universities. lot of dollars, especially football, basketball, and some of the right? tens of millions, there is another money angle for you, this is terrible to me, academics in this country is letting us down. right? because they re treating our student athletes like atms and turning the other way but the defense of them in spite of that statistic, every single college that i know where they have a high level athlete that is competing for that school they often offer free cl they offer, how do they get the incentive? i mean, that is pretty generous. i think the college that don t have them earn their degrees, they re doing a disservice. if it was my son or daughter, we
those reading below the fourth grade level at literally 8%. and then you have those between fourth and eighth grade at 60%. here is the bottom line, athletics mean a lot to universities. lot of dollars, especially football, basketball, and some of the right? tens of millions, there is another money angle for you, this is terrible to me, academics in this country is letting us down. right? because they re treating our student athletes like atms and turning the other way but the defense of them in spite of that statistic, every single college that i know where they have a high level athlete that is competing for that school they often offer tutors for free classes. they offer, how do they get the incentive? i mean, that is pretty generous. i think the college that don t have them earn their degrees, they re doing a disservice. if it was my son or daughter, we