Many L.A. students get to college; only a few finish

Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/1/2017 | Howard Blume

[george76]

About 70% of Los Angeles high school graduates enroll in two- or four-year colleges, but only 25% graduate within six years.

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it’s hard to assess recent district efforts that could be seen as pushing in different directions. On one hand, the district is touting higher standards: a high school graduation requirement that all students pass the courses necessary for applying to a four-year state college. On the other hand, the district requires a grade of D only in these classes and the colleges require a C or better to apply. The district also offers an array of “credit recovery” options to let students raise failing grades — a plan that has have been criticized for giving such credit too easily.

Although the district has achieved record graduation rates, skeptics have questioned whether all those graduates are fully prepared for higher education.

A companion study suggests one reason that high school graduates are not ready to stick it out in college: They can’t get the expert advice and support they need. More than 75% of high school counselors say they have the knowledge to help students complete college and financial aid applications, but only 42% said they have enough time to provide students with the needed assistance.

[minnesota_bound]

The cost of college has gone up far higher then anything else.
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[Dr. Scarpetta]

So many kids think they deserve the college experience even if they can’t read well. They end up flunking out with a debt problem.

[minnesota_bound]

#26 My cousins husband teaches programming like C++ and Visual Basic. I looked up his ratings. The students say things like easy course or he is old and slow : )

He is old and slow. Conversations with him take a half hour that can be done in 10 minutes with anyone else.

[Covenantor]

So many kids think they deserve the college experience even if they can’t read well. They end up flunking out with a debt problem

Can't read well?

Sort of misunderstood the student loan application they signed?

Arithmatical skills at 3rd grade level?

I sense a connection there.

[Pelham]

L.A. students = Mexico

Well not entirely but to a very large extent. The Bush/Obama regency loved themselves some illegal aliens and they drove out black and white Americans.

It’s not a secret. And it’s also why California will never vote conservative in your lifetime, assuming it doesn’t secede and join Mexico outright.

[Thibodeaux]

When I came to engineering school freshman orientation, the chancellor ask us to look at those on either side.

Only one of the three will graduate. That was decades ago

[rbg81]

If all colleges would simply raise the bar and insist that only A and B average students got in....then the yearly entry number would likely drop by probably 40-percent. You’d have colleges then going back to the way that they were prior to the 1960s

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LOL. Nice thought, but that would never happen. Too much $$ to be made off of selling the dream. Also, it would be more than just professor layoffs. Many colleges would have to close. I don’t think that would be a bad thing and it will probably happen anyway.

[t_hart]

It's good that students are given the opportunity to improve their assessments for "credit recovery." But since they can't get expert advice and support, we see such results. Right here there is an opportunity to find different information about finances or even carry out an assignment on this topic. Also, this is a great opportunity to test your current knowledge and consult.