How many tax dollars were spent on this "study", which concludes a fact that has been known for decades ? - more junk science
The saddest part is, today’s college-level is yesterday’s junior high school-level. These poor idiots would be completely unprepared for the actual educational standards our nation once enjoyed before Marxists invaded academia.
Wanna bet that this study’s conclusions will be utilized to shovel yet more state taxpayer money to the public schools?
Less than two-thirds of students who enroll in a four-year college in Pennsylvania will earn a bachelor's degree within six years,
In Before the Captain Obvious post.
Like, duh. Community college is for those who can't make it in a four year university. With Hussein's new vamp on No Child Left Behind where everyone is a winner and no one is a loser, they'll have more and more who won't be prepared. OTOH, many of those students simply aren't college material. Many are getting in only due to their minority status. There's multiple times more minority scholarships than there are for deserving bright white kids (non-PC but it's the truth) so they are given every chance in the world to succeed. However, if they never applied themselves in the first 12 years, is it any wonder they are dropping out.
You can't teach a child if you pity them. -- My mom, a librarian, said that when the leftist white teachers started moving into the inner-city schools and coddling the kids rather than preparing them.
My sister and I ‘went back’ to college as grown women, and some of these kids out of high school were just plain lazy. They were acting as though they were still in high school.
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This has been going on for decades. COlleges have had math placement tests for entering freshmen for years to see if they need remedial math for the kids to learn what they should have learned in high school.
The the college profs HATE it.
English isn’t much better.
My kids are appalled at what most college students write like, even those who are English or writing majors. And my son is appalled at what his English writing prof handed out as examples of acceptable technical writing.
Someone needs to tell some of these professors that you don’t end a sentence with a preposition.
I’m currently teaching a student on a home-bound situation.She was expelled for discipline problems, but because she has an IEP, the county is required to teach her, and that’s where I come in for 10 hours a week.
This 15 year old has a litany of problems, least of which is a total adversion to work. When things get hard, especially in math, she gives up and shuts down. We are struggling to get through Algebra slope concepts. Progress is slow beyond description
She reads at a 4th grade level and is resistant to going any further.
It’s not totally her fault, she has a 79 IQ
The kicker? She is convinced she will go to college - convinced
The other kicker? She will probably get into one, but won’t last long
I’d argue that it starts before that. A lot of kids are falling behind where they should be well before that. For them the problem starts in elementary school and gets worse every year after that.