It just means that businesses, not trusting the academic credentials of “college” applicants, will need to set up their own placement tests. Watch the homeschoolers and Asians blow everyone away on those tests!
Classic liberal educational mentality. When you can’t educate kids up to standard - just change the standards. Downwards.
Can someone please explain to me how placing 1st year college students into math classes that they are not prepared to take is good for the student and placing students into remedial math to bring them up to speed is bad?
Did poorly on exam, yet he was in AP English.
Then there’s the matter of colleges providing remedial English and math classes. If you need them, why are they letting you attend college? Must have something to do with the $$$ !
Soon we will have college graduates who cannot “operate” a hamburger flipper. Oh well, there is always the community organizer “profession” which may well lead to bigger things.
Research by Scott-Clayton and others indicates that the placement tests are a poor predictor of how students will perform in college classes and that high school grade point averages can be a better barometer.
More phony lib theory. Students who do poorly on the tests are assigned to remedial classes and only 1/3 of those have even a small measure of academic success. It sounds like the tests are doing exactly what they are supposed to--weeding out those who are not ready to be mainstreamed in higher education. Therefore--get rid of the tests!
Sorry, but DUMB is actually a compliment here. This “college” has just adopted a program that “feels good” but will destroy the value of that paper called a “College Degree.”
It isn’t bad enough that colleges rip off the financial futures of their students by pushing them through courses that have absolutely NO value in the real world. Now they are removing that last indication to the prospective employer that the “degree” is worth the paper it is printed on.
Additionally, this community “College” is abetting in a massive coverup, hiding the fact that the local HIGH SCHOOLS are an abject failure.
Doesn't make that A or B worth very much. Typical public school mentality...can't hurt the little darling's feeling by giving them the grades they REALLY deserve.
Also, they kept saying how the students could get out quicker. Never mentioned if they learned anything.
Double Dumb. My oldest started a JC at 15 and tested out of all the remedial courses. Needless to say she was home schooled.
Remedial college courses show the real state of public (K-12) education.
Create a HS entrance exam with IQ=97 required, and all these "college" stories would go away - forever.
Translation: The teachers and principal at the Robert A. Milikan High School are LIARS!
These teachers and the principal have LIED to the student, his parents, and the taxpayers. metmom: This is another reason to homeschool. When teachers pass on students to the next grade who are unprepared they are LIARS. When then give out good grades that are undeserved they are LYING! Why would any parent entrust their children to LIARS!
Agreed that it is dumb.
Typical trend in colleges and universities nationwide that are having to accommodate the FAILURE of our K12 education system. I repeatedly teach Freshmen having come straight from/out of high school who cannot even write a cohesive paragraph or read and follow simple written instruction(s). =.=
I am new to high school AP stuff, as my child is entering 9th grade, but in our public school district, anybody can take an AP class, whether they are prepared for it or not. The counselors will try to discourage you if you are not a stellar student. They will warn you that you are wasting time and money, but you can still take it.
The article didn’t say what this guy’s AP test score was, did it, only that he had done well on his grades in the class? The grades during the semester don’t matter. It’s the official test at the end that matters.
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