THANKS CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Cheyanna Wilson graduated from Chicago’s Curie High School with a 3.0 grade-point average that included a B in a “College Algebra” class.
At Malcolm X College, where she enrolled to earn an associate’s degree in accounting, she did not meet basic math requirements. Before she could take accounting classes, she needed to take — and pay for — a non-credit remedial math course.
“I’d be in the math class I need to graduate now” if not for the remedial class, said Wilson, 21. As many as one-third of students entering higher education need to take some sort of remedial or developmental course, a class in the basics of reading, English or math covering material they should have learned in high school, according to a recent report by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based policy group. While most four-year private and public universities offer remediation, the bulk of remedial work is done by community colleges, whose doors are open to anyone with a high school diploma or GED.
“It’s like a track meet where you have [students] run another lap to get to the start line instead of moving toward the finish line,” said Bob Wise, Alliance president.
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1 comment:
here's a heads up to all concerned:
1. what you know in life is your individual responsibility.
2. seek and ye shall find.
3. if learning is too hard for you, stay stupid, and see how you like the results of that decision.
4. curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's the reason we have toilets that flush.
5. you're mothers tits are meant to feed you only until your teeth break the gums.
6. everyone, everywhere, at all times, in every circumstance, is a potential teacher to you.
7. pay fucking attention does not mean pay attention only to fucking.
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