Posted on 08/22/2013 5:35:19 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
WASHINGTON — Just a quarter of this year's high school graduates who took the ACT tests have the reading, math, English and science skills they need to succeed in college or a career, according to data the testing company released Wednesday.
The numbers are even worse for black high school graduates: Only 5 percent are fully ready for life after high school.
The results, part of ACT's annual report, indicate thousands of students graduate from high schools without the knowledge necessary for the next steps in life. The data also show a downturn in overall student scores, although company officials attribute the slide to updated standards and more students taking the exams - including those with no intention of attending two- or four-year colleges.
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Bill Cosby has been trying to tell blacks to stop playing the victimhood and race cards. He urges them to effect change in their own hearts and minds; he urges them to speak good English and to embrace learning. For this stance, he has been excoriated by the professional race baiters. Sadly, it appears significant numbers of blacks are beyond redemption at this point.
I went to a public high school in the early 1950’s and then on to U.C.L.A.-a good university then. At U.C.L.A. we competed with kids that attended Groton and we did just as well. However, I went to what was then an above average school district.
Products of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Boggles the mind when one compares this to the accomplishments of someone like Washington Carver during times of segregation.
Our education system is clearly failing. It takes a certain amount of discipline for kids to learn. That seems to be lacking today.
To say nothing of the existential threat posed by Anthropogenic Global Warming!
“Root causes”.. easy- African Kings, for 150 years, sold their lame, lazy, crazy,criminal, etc. population to the traders. Think of Castro’s 100,000 “Marielito’s” that were dumped on America in 1980
“They graduate with little employment skills...”
They get jobs at ACORN-type organizations or in positions that make productive enterprise more difficult.
Yes the vaulted USSR Education Bureaucracy is still “Searching for Superman” the elusive genius group of minority students. Why not it only cost the white debbels ~$10k per chillin.
“I don’t have any problem making general, factual statements about race.”......” I wouldn’t treat a young black male poorly based on that unless he gave me indications he was violent.”
The problem comes with taking a factual, objective assessment from a statistical group, and then applying it rigidly to an individual.
It’d be far less than 5% if the ACT were in cursive.
A consequence I lay squarely at the foot of the problem....gov’t AND parents (or ‘parents’).
REMOVE the tax from the community, starve the NEA and unions and have parents pay for the education of their brood.
Then and ONLY then will you see improvement.
Yup, I was actually thinking about posting that comment, but wanted to keep my comments brief. Anyhow, a long time ago I posted the scheme of "educating" students that have no business in college into community groups and even government. Colleges are more than happy to accommodate this scheme for $$... that is why we have African American Studies, Women Studies, LBGT Studies, etc
You posted: I’m surprised it is as high as 25%. Most young people I encounter don’t have enough sense to get in out of the rain. But, they do know a lot about their smartphones.
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What is required to be qualified to enter college is hardly taxing any more. A large number of students need remediation when they get to a university, and they had no reason to know they did. They get credit toward their degrees for taking the remediation classes, so there is not enough time left to impose rigorous requirements to complete their majors.
“To this day I am still impressed at the quality and high level of education received in public high school by those I knew who graduated in the 1920’s to 1940’s “
Of course you are. In 1941 the white HS graduation rate was 25%. If 75% of whites left school after 8th grade, you would STILL be impressed with the product of high schools today.
Dang. And here I am praying my daughter will get accepted into Baylor with a 28. I’m still pushing her to take the ACT one more time.
That 5% are the ones that are ridiculed by the rest of that culture, for “acting white”. I admire them for the crap they have to withstand from the “hip hop/rap/thug” culture.
Take a look at this 8th grade test from 1912.
1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools
I did remedial English language tutoring to first year college students and I can tell you not one of those I tutored could function at this level.
I don't think a single one of them even knew the meaning of the word 'grammer' - or wanted to.
Or as Community Organizers, Obamacare Navigators, or at the University of Chicago Medical Center pushing welfare cases on other hospitals.
Link to:
1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
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