Posted on 02/05/2017 9:45:30 PM PST by EinNYC
Despite a rising citywide graduation rate, the number of students with the skills to succeed in college is alarmingly low — even at some schools that hand out the most diplomas, a Post analysis found.
College readiness sunk to 1.9 percent last year at the FDNY HS for Fire and Life Safety in Brooklyn, which had an 83 percent graduation rate in 2016, city reports show.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
BTW, virtually all, if not all of the schools on this list are predominately minority enrollment, most in some really "interesting" neighborhoods.
Back around 2012, I noticed several big-name colleges around the Virginia/DC region which mandated pre-math and pre-English classes....meaning that the incoming students weren’t at a level to take college classes and these pre-classes were to bring the students up a notch.
It is a continuing trend of packaging schools into a bundle so that the general crowd got X noted on their records, but they weren’t grasping the subject.
At some point in twenty years, I suspect a quarter of all colleges will have started a fifth-year campaign...to make everyone take (and pay) for what they should have learned in high school and failed to accomplish. All of this goes back to a marginalized education program.
SANK
There is an easy answer to this. They need more money.
DeBlasio doesn’t want his city’s kids to be “college ready”, “prepared” or even educated enough to apply BECAUSE he knows that if they get a “real” education, they will see through his communist bullshit and work to get him out of office.
Reading “Tom, Dick and Jane” is not getting an education.
Kind of like LAUSD....
This is why colleges are filled with snowflakes
Their going through the motions....
I have an even easier answer, lower college standards.
“Everyone gets graduated” is not equivalent to “everyone gets educated.”
Just as, “Everyone gets health insurance” is not equivalent to “everyone gets affordable medical care.”
Governments, especially leftist governments, are famous for these lies. Remember the USSR days when many of the SSR’s featured names like “People Democratic Republic of....?” Or, in our day, the manipulation of previously reliable (or at least honestly generated) statistics?
...was actually the correct start to the sentence if you read on.
That is what I have previously posted, several times. That is at least partially what I believe to be the genesis of the "snowflakes". People who were passed via social promotion. People whose every meager effort was applauded as though they had discovered the cure for cancer. People whose grades were changed, often behind the teacher's back, to move them along. No thinking or reasoning required, hence "snowflakes" formed.
What a tortured sentence.
Good one.
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