claim: "private prison systems are calculating how many new beds (they will need) based on the ... number of third graders."
author: kathleen ford
evidence_1: oct 7, 2013 ... do prisons use third grade reading scores to predict the number of prison ... the  statement is explosive, as they say, because it speaks to so many of our ... is an  undeniable connection between literacy skills and incarceration rates. you ... to  determine the number of prison beds they'll need in the decade to ...
evidence_2: aug 5, 2013 ... she said that "private prison systems are calculating how many new beds (they  will need) based on the ... number of third graders." we found ...
evidence_3: mar 16, 2016 ... here, we outline them, as well as how they effect adults and children. ... use third  grade reading scores to predict the number of future prison beds needed. ... read  at a 4 grade level, “meaning they lack the reading skills to navigate many ... most  low literate adults need to be connected to literacy education ...
evidence_4: mar 19, 2014 ... "she's only in the third grade, but based on winter test results she'll score just a ...  the message that followed went something like: we have to increase the ...  warned me that third grade test scores would be used to build more prisons. ...  super-secretive algorithm that consumes a massive amount of data to ...
evidence_5: we know that our private prison systems are calculating how many new beds ( they will need) based on the third grade, number of third graders, and that's just ...