"Poor reading skills snowball through the grades," he writes.
A poor reading on consumer sentiment caused an erosion of those gains, though markets rebounded later.
A full detention is earned by poor reading, swearing or lateness.
He supposedly completed high school, but has poor reading and writing skills.
Folding card tables, broken chairs, poor reading lights and shabby towels are simply not relaxing, she said.
In his introduction, the N.E.A. chairman, Dana Gioia, wrote, "Poor reading skills correlate heavily with lack of employment, lower wages, and fewer opportunities for advancement".
Major indexes opened lower after a poor reading on factory activity in New York, but turned higher around midday after getting better news on industrial production.
Analysts had expected an increase to 49: none of the more than 30 analysts polled by Reuters had forecast such a poor reading.
Both presidential candidates are trying to claim the issue, and George W. Bush has called poor reading skills "a national emergency".
This nonprofit organization serves non-English speakers as well as adults with poor reading skills through weekly classes that are usually held in local libraries.
After making her way through graduate school with some allowances made for her poor reading skills, Dr. Bartlett decided to go to law school.
