Thursday, June 09, 2011
"Report: Over a third of students entering college need remedial help"
Something is seriously wrong here.
Lots of money and well-intended teachers are getting terrible results...
Lots of money and well-intended teachers are getting terrible results...
In her Chicago Sun-Times article, Kara Spak reports this and more:
"As many as one-third of students entering higher education need to take some sort of remedial or developmental course, a class in the basics of reading, English or math covering material they should have learned in high school, according to a recent report by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based policy group. While most four-year private and public universities offer remediation, the bulk of remedial work is done by community colleges, whose doors are open to anyone with a high school diploma or GED.
'It’s like a track meet where you have [students] run another lap to get to the start line instead of moving toward the finish line,' said Bob Wise, Alliance president.
By a number of indicators, hundreds of thousands of high school students are graduating unprepared for the rigors of college. Nationally, in 2010, only 24 percent of ACT-tested high school graduates were deemed college ready in all four subjects tested — English, math, reading and science. In Illinois, only 23 percent met those benchmarks."
