that's the way i read it also
Posted on 08/04/2017 6:50:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Aiming to help thousands of students who get sidetracked in developmental courses that don’t count toward their degrees, California State University will do away next year with traditional remedial education.
Chancellor Timothy White directed the 23-campus system to overhaul by fall 2018 its curriculum for students found to be unprepared for college-level English and math. About 39 percent of CSU’s incoming freshmen, or 25,000 students, are required to take remedial classes for no credit before they can begin their general education.
“The idea that students have to take courses that don’t count toward their degree costs them money and costs them time,” said James Minor, senior strategist for academic success and inclusive excellence at CSU.
Nearly 3,300 freshmen who entered in fall 2015 did not complete their remedial classes and were ineligible to return to school.
“It really invites first-generation students to question whether or not they really belong in college,” Minor said.
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Let’s see, they have too many students who can’t handle basic English and math, so the solution is to do away with remediation requirements and push many more through the university?!
It sounds like a recipe for lower standards.
California - Algebra Free Zone
<>Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley
I have been hearing this on the radio and can’t help myself from laughing out loud,
we need to eliminate Reading,Writing and Mathematics to increase the Graduation Rate at Colleges.
NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!
Wouldn’t be easier to just get rid of grades altogether? Then the graduation rate would be 100%.
I’m surprised California State University hasn’t already thought of this. Maybe I should apply to be their “senior strategist for academic success and inclusive excellence’”.
What idiot educators . Their now suspect degrees are truly worthless. Losers . They are sooooooo afraid of meritocracy and accountability.
“It really invites first-generation students to question whether or not they really belong in college,” Minor said.”
Irony can be so ironic.
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So some students, we know who, are too stupid to learn the basics because they weren’t qualified to go to college because they were chosen for their race, religion or sexual deviancy and because these people failed, the classes are eliminated so that the failures won’t know they’re failures, and will go into the business world unprepared but it doesn’t matter because they will get jobs through affirmative action anyway.
I know, “no run-on sentences.”
> Their now suspect degrees are truly worthless. <
Yep. And there will be collateral damage. Those minorities - and everyone else - who work hard will be lumped in with the free-pass graduates.
A friend of the family went to medical school (and graduated). He said that if you’re white or Asian and fail one course, you’re out. But minorities get a second chance to take the course. That policy makes everyone look bad.
I think people are reading this wrong.
They are doing away with these classes so that the idiots will drop out after the first semester in which they fail anyway.
With that, there is room for more people to try, and, hopefully, those that don’t need the special ed remedial classes will continue on to graduate properly.
Students who aren’t ready for 4-year college need to take classes at community college until they ARE ready.
Remedial graduates like we have a shortage of them now only in Ca.
“It sounds like a recipe for lower standards.”
Either that or they are fast tracking the remedial students back to the streets to make room for more qualified students.
The prerequisite for these classes is “Understanding Why Remedials Are Accepted into College”. Lots of answers there.
Here’s a thought, just issue a Cal State BA with the High School Diploma, 100% graduation rate, profs still get great salaries and nice offices without any effort, and grads get free toilet paper.
> Here’s a thought, just issue a Cal State BA with the High School Diploma, 100% graduation rate... <
That wouldn’t be fair to those “students” who don’t put in the effort to graduate high school. Unless you made the high school diploma also automatic, on, say, the 18th birthday of the student.
Then your plan would be fair.
I agree. It sounds to me that they are adopting a sink or swim approach. That's the way it was in Berkeley years ago. I know because I almost learned to swim back then.
I don't know if that was before or during the time that Kamala Harris was his mistress.
that's the way i read it also
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