Fewer students than you might think
Illinois rolled out its new, information-chocked school report card recently and provided an easy-to-understand figure of how many Illinois high school graduates are ready to go to college.
Brace yourself: It's only 46 percent.
That, the state says, pegs how students have a reasonable chance at college success, based on their ACT scores. You don't need to have nailed a perfect 36 on the ACT to know that means a little more than half of high school grads aren't ready to do college-level work.
Brace yourself again: Even that may be optimistic.
By the ACT's own calculations, only one-fourth of Illinois students are prepared for college. At almost every high school across Illinois, the state's college readiness figures are higher than the ACT's, according to an analysis by Tribune reporters Diane Rado and Alex Richards.
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5 comments:
What do you expect. Illinois is run by Democrats.
"All that remedial help is expensive for colleges and discouraging to students,"!
I don't think college courses are free, are they? How then can they be expensive to colleges????
If they didn't pay attention in HS, they need not be borrowing $ to nor pay attention in college.
Get a job.
Here's the kicker. Every kids does NOT need to go to college. Teach them modern day tools/technology and let their own ingenuity take them to success.
Many kids with high school diplomas didn't earn them. Remedial work is necessary because they don't have the skills to be in any college, but it's not politically correct to point that out or to ask how they qualified even to be admitted.
It will only get worse as Common Core goes into full swing. In math, it does NOT prepare kids for college level mathematics..it only goes to Algebra II. The dumbing down of American children continues...
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