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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Researchers Seek Ways to Better Help Unprepared College Students

By Lloyd Brown

Public schools only have one job: prepare students for college or a career.  Yet, far too many students are being shortchanged because the majority of them are not ready for college when they arrive.
Florida required unprepared students to enroll in classes intended to help them catch up with their peers – until 2014, when a new law greatly diminished the role of developmental education, sometimes called remediation.  Basically, the new law left it up to students to decide whether they take remedial classes, (which carry no college credit.)  As a result, students who are not ready for college-level work nevertheless are allowed to plunge right into regular college courses.
How did that work out?........half the students at two colleges not only passed up remediation, they opted out of taking math, reading, or writing courses in the first semester completely.......college professors are expected to teach kids in eight weeks what the government schools did not teach them in 13 years.....

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My Take - Although the author makes some strong points his prima facie argument is flawed.  The one and only job of public schools is not to prepare them for college.  Their one and only job is to teach them is reading,  writing, arithmatic and to become credible citizens.  After that they can help direct them to learn skills such as clerical skills, work shop, etc.  Skills that will allow them to become credible citizens.  College isn't the "one" job of public education.  It's just one more skill set that can be chosen.

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