Posted on 12/05/2014 6:57:26 AM PST by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking at a "college opportunity summit" on Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama described "two worlds" of college-bound students:
"[T]he fact is that right now, a small number of students are getting every advantage in the college admissions race, while millions of other students who are just as talented can't even begin to compete."
Mrs. Obama was making a pitch for expanded college counseling. She said too many students go through school without any real guidance on how to get into college or how to pay for it.
She described one world, where students "don't know what classes to take, or how to prepare for the SAT or the ACT. No one helps them decide which colleges to apply to. No one reviews the their applications. And plenty of kids have no idea that they're eligible for financial aid, so they assume they just can't afford college, and they don't even bother to apply.
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He's not as old as I am. I can remember Eleanor Roosevelt. Never cared for her, either, but at least she kept her mouth shut.
She would know....
Did students get fundamentally stupider and more helpless in the last 30 years...
As it was back when you went to school as it is today ...if you REALLY want to go to college you find a way...
This is a veiled push for more union members...
Yeah - the black kids get a free ride, while the rest of us have to pay.
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