Skip to comments.
Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read
CBS NY ^
Posted on 03/07/2013 3:11:25 PM PST by SMGFan
Its an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City Universitys community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldnt make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills reading, writing and math first before they could begin college courses.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arth; highschoolgrads; illiteracy; literacy; newyork; ny; readingskills
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120 ... 161-176 next last
To: lyby
Are you kidding?? My son can do algebra and trig in his head thanks to Saxon math. His college profs are stunned by his mathematical abilities thanks to Saxon. (No thanks to me, the homeschool teacher who can’t calculate her way out of a paper bag...)
Saxon teaches you the *how* and the *why* of math. Yes, you have to practice, but that’s the way it is with all math.
81
posted on
03/07/2013 5:24:18 PM PST
by
Marie
("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
To: lyby
Oh, and my son is a machinist. He thinks in four dimensions and calculate every aspect of the process.
Thanks to Saxon.
82
posted on
03/07/2013 5:26:23 PM PST
by
Marie
("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
To: SMGFan
Kinda makes you wonder why newspapers are in trouble...
83
posted on
03/07/2013 5:27:19 PM PST
by
Gertie
Comment #84 Removed by Moderator
Comment #85 Removed by Moderator
Comment #86 Removed by Moderator
Comment #87 Removed by Moderator
To: GeronL
Report me to the mods if you are so convinced.
88
posted on
03/07/2013 5:58:06 PM PST
by
verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)
To: SMGFan
This is a disaster. 1/2 of Public school students, virtually all non-white fail to graduate. Roughly 13% of all public, private and parochial students who enter school graduate and are competent in an 8th grade level or above.
89
posted on
03/07/2013 6:00:21 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: GeronL
Its about NYC schools, I was just pointing out something the schools ARE teaching since they apparently do not teach reading. Title of the thread: Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read
Thread is about reading in NYC school not about sex. LEARN A NEW SONG.
90
posted on
03/07/2013 6:01:47 PM PST
by
verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)
To: verga
Now you are being ridiculous.
You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this thread.
91
posted on
03/07/2013 6:06:47 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: verga
Now you are being ridiculous.
You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this forum.
92
posted on
03/07/2013 6:06:56 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Elsiejay
I and my three children were proficient readers at least a year prior to enrolling in grade one. We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful. Government interventions, however well intentioned, are not adequate substitutes.
Amen. My parents and grandparents encouraged me to read, and they said I was doing so by age three. I doubt I could comprehend much of what I was reading at that time, but once that process started...what a wonderful world opened up for me. They bought me truckloads of comics and books. Every week we would visit my grandmother and she'd ask if I had finished the last Hardy Boys book she'd given me...when I said 'yes' she would disappear and then reappear with the next volume. They are here in my study (and were part of the inspiration for my FR name).
Parents (and grandparents) are the key. You gave them such a gift by encouraging them.
93
posted on
03/07/2013 6:08:04 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Wait a second -- according to Secretary of State John Kerry, aren't they going to be stuck in Iraq?
...need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City Universitys community college system.
Someone will be calling them at home, since it's pointless to send them a letter of rejection.
Thanks SMGFan.
94
posted on
03/07/2013 6:10:11 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: elkfersupper
Except that in NY schools, where 80% cannot read, the bell curve is the line that forms after they HEAR the recess bell. /s
95
posted on
03/07/2013 6:21:42 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: GeronL; shag377; SoftballMominVA; Gabz
You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this forum. Just so I understand, you believe that 100% of all public school teachers are perverts. Is that correct?
96
posted on
03/07/2013 6:31:19 PM PST
by
verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)
To: SMGFan
So much for the vaunted Regents’ Exam.
97
posted on
03/07/2013 6:32:16 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: verga
You aren’t even worth talking to.
98
posted on
03/07/2013 6:35:50 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Marie; PUGACHEV
My twins were afflicted with the whole word method of reading their first year of school. The abstract thinker did fine, but the logical one just couldn't 'catch on' to reading.
I was taught with phonics waaaay back when, and although I'm not quite old enough to have used these in a schoolroom, the McGuffey Readers from the late 1800 are what we used the help her out.
They're actually free for Kindle on Amazon - McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader
99
posted on
03/07/2013 6:37:01 PM PST
by
MamaTexan
(To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
To: BilLies
.where have all the childern gone? Private school? We have similar issues in Milwaukee. It's mandated that teachers, firefighters and city workers live in the city but they do NOT send their kids to Milwaukee Public Schools.
100
posted on
03/07/2013 6:45:26 PM PST
by
Mygirlsmom
(Where the heck are we going, and what are we doing in this handbasket???)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-80, 81-100, 101-120 ... 161-176 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson