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Community College Bowl
Campus Report ^ | October 30, 2007 | Malcolm Kline

Posted on 10/30/2007 11:52:30 AM PDT by bs9021

Community College Bowl

by: Malcolm A. Kline, October 30, 2007

Community colleges have tried just about every promotional gimmick short of a “Going out of business” sale. Ironically, given their increasing use of remedial coursework, that might be the most appropriate stratagem for them to use.

“Estimates vary, but many community-college educators and experts say that on average between 40 percent and 70 percent of new students entering two-year colleges around the country place into remedial math,” Debra E. Blum reports in The Chronicle of Higher Education. And the news gets even worse.

“There are students taking these courses three, four, five times before they can pass them, and many who drop out, give up before they do,” Barbara S. Bonham of Appalachian State said. Graduation hopes seem to fade with every repeat.

“No national statistics exist to track pass rates, but among a group of 27 two-year colleges participating in a foundation-supported effort to improve graduations and transfer rates, called Achieving the Dream, the data are grim,” Blum writes. “Fewer than one-quarter of the students at the 27 colleges who placed into a remedial-math course in academic 2002-3 had finished their pre-college math requirements three years later.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Maryland; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: communitycollege; graduation; math; remedialcourses

1 posted on 10/30/2007 11:52:31 AM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021

Not everyone is suited to be a rocket scientist and besides, the unions are always looking for new members.


2 posted on 10/30/2007 11:55:15 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

But the dream of attending an elite law school with a secret handshake and ascending to the highest echelons of power for the most mediocre and their wives lives on!

3 posted on 10/30/2007 12:56:56 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: bs9021

I have a son who is gifted mathematically and is in his 4th year of pharmacy school at a private college.

My daughter is math challenged and attending a community college. Thank God it’s cheap and the credits count toward transfer.

Community colleges accept everybody with a high school diploma or GED. With the deplorable teaching environment in most high schools, it’s not surprising that many HS graduates fail in community college. Fix the high schools and you will eliminate the need for community colleges altogether.


4 posted on 10/30/2007 1:35:09 PM PDT by Soliton (Freddie T is the one for me! (c))
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