More federal intervention=more failure.
Posted on 04/27/2016 2:21:43 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Only 37% of American 12th-graders were academically prepared for college math and reading in 2015, a slight dip from two years earlier, according to test scores released Wednesday.
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More federal intervention=more failure.
Not everybody needs to go to college, though.
Get those kids into college where they can borrow trillions and funnel the dough to Democrat supporting profs & admins.
The problem at least in California is that performance reviews are non-existent. Yes, I know there are other problems, but come on.
What about the other 58%?
“Get those kids into college where they can borrow trillions and funnel the dough to Democrat supporting profs & admins.”
Folks, we have a
W I N N E R !
Welcome to the Sub-prime college crisis !
37% would be a good number. High schools should be geared to job and life training for those who have neither the aptitude nor the interest to succeed and benefit from college.
Those low scores? Math and Reading skills would probably IMPROVE if less academically oriented students were learning to do something that included use of those skills.
If you think about the traditional level of college attendance, 37% being prepared is about right.
The problem is there is nothing for all of the others to do.
HA
63% of high school seniors need to consider a career in HVAC, auto repair, or welding where they can pick up a good paycheck and not go six figures in debt.
So often I wonder why our schools are not producing well educated students.
I wonder how it is, that schools 60 and 70 years ago, when we spent a lot less per capita adjusted for inflation than today, produced graduates who could read and write and function in the world.
I wonder about an older black man, who I saw on TV, who said he got a better education in the Jim Crow South than inner city black youth get today.
I wonder how it is, that a number of big city school systems spend more per capita than the national average on education, but produce some of the worst results.
And I wonder about the landmark report, A Nation At Risk, produced over 30 years ago, which outlined many serious problems of our schools. And why it is that we haven’t been able to make needed changes in how our schools function, even though we are all aware and agree on some of the serious problems we face.
You will never hear a high school teacher say that. For some reason becoming a plumber or electrician and making 3 times as much as a party-for-four-years major is depicted as being a failure in today's government schools.
Basic literacy is really all you need for today’s dumbed-down version of college, so what this is really saying is that almost 2/3rds of children are not literate after 12 or more years of “education”.
Big Education money is important to Democrats.
Colleges are a major conduit of money.
But 100% are prepared to be offended by any social issues or personalities they don’t like.
My high school (60s) had 3 tracks - college, general and commercial. General and commercial kids usually got jobs or went into the military after graduation, voc tech or secretarial.
I doubt if even 1/3 of the entire class were bound for 4 yr college and that seems about right. Then again, you went to college to get a degree where you actually learned something useful.
exactly. kids need to be LITERATE enough to go to college even if they never do. Why are millennials so constitutionally ignorant? They’re not literate.
When Emily Dickinson, in the mid 19th century, went through the equivalent of what we consider high school today...or even 430+ years ago when Shakespeare was publically educated, the levels of their educations would, in many cases, be even higher than that of the current BS/BA degrees.
This is how deeply we’ve sunk in contemporary educational standards.
But then the left abhors “standards” of any sort. Thus look for educational measurement to fall even lower still.
Ever to recover?
and that a huge number of college/university enrollees must take a year or more of remedial classes before beginning freshman classes. Then they will flunk out or quit because it is too hard two years later, and the school has made a bunch of bucks off a kid who should never had been accepted in the first place. And on top of that have a large government school loan to pay off. It is a racket. The kid should have gone to a technical high school and learned a trade which probably make more than the guy who graduated form college that year.
And, and, if you trace back to when the national decline of education commenced, it was the year following the advent of the US Department of Education.
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