now add in the teachers letting pick their own grades and we're done...
Posted on 08/07/2017 3:28:50 PM PDT by davikkm
Politicians, state workers and the media talk constantly about how we must be doing more to get children into college, especially those from minority backgrounds or poorer families. But what is ignored is the fact that the number of people enrolling is nothing like the number of people graduating; at Cal Tech, the four-year graduation rate is just 19%. To solve this, California has declared that freshmen will no longer have to sit math and English placement tests!?!?!
23 colleges will be involved in the project that will kick off in 2018; and the aim of this idiotic experiment is to increase graduation rates to 40%. How they think putting ill-prepared kids into classes where they can’t actually manage the workload will possibly bump the graduation rates is anyone’s guess…But at least they will “look” like they’re trying.
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It says on your chart you talk like a fag.
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I believe IWB (and I) made a mistake identifying only the Caltech campuses
Thirty percent need remedial work, according to Cal State. Some campuses have very high rates of Pell Grant Affirmative Action enrollees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/california-today-cal-state-remedial-classes.html
I’m going to guess that any student that needs remedial classes never sees the inside of the Caltech campus.
Yep. Caltech is private, and while it’s still California and kooky, it’s not Cal State kooky.
Social Promotion comes to California’s colleges and Universities.
They ruined the K-12 system, and now are working on the collegiate level.
Simple. No one should hire any graduate of any California K-12 school, community college, or university.
Of course that’s probably what the Libs want, a large block of uneducated, unemployable voters, who will vote themselves government benefits.
Wait a minute. That’s what they already have in California and in other Lib strongholds.
BS. Maybe a private pilot, maybe even a co-pilot on a junker; my son "Ace" has a degree, skill and ambition. I've been flying almost 50 years myself, and never met an employed "'tard." BS
27 replies without the two magic words...
Every time with education, so goes Kalifornica, so goes the rest of the nation.
Very few students finish college in four years. Most students change their majors at least once. The average at most schools is over five years to get a degree.
now add in the teachers letting pick their own grades and we're done...
And no student loan burdens!
lol I was thinking an up front lump sum payment :)
but none is better :)
If I was at Cal Tech, I’d be SUING the media for the 19% claim. That’s just insane, not to mention that they are a PRIVATE SCHOOL.
The media is, again, showing their idiocy, by using the term “Cal Tech” to mean “Students studying for Technical Degrees at California State Universities”
At a minimum, Cal Tech is owed a big-time APOLOGY.
Placement officers will learn which applicants to talk slower to.
“Just hand the(m) a degree!!”
23 college administrations that should be prosecuted for graft and fraud.
The article (and this media writer) are just fine. It was the original poster, who apparently re-typed some words from the article, who confused “Cal State” and “Cal Tech”!!
Another example of “read twice before posting once!”
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