The program is being organized by the National Center on Education and the Economy, and its goals include insuring that students have mastered a set of basic requirements and reducing the numbers of high school graduates who need remedial courses when they enroll in college. More than a million college freshmen across America must take remedial courses each year, and many drop out before getting a degree.
High school students will begin the new coursework in the fall of 2011 in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The educations commissioners of those states have pledged to sign up 10 to 20 schools each for the pilot project, and have begun to reach out to district superintendents.
Marc S. Tucker, president of the center, a Washington-based nonprofit said, “That’s a central problem we’re trying to address, the enormous failure rate of these kids when they go to the open admission colleges and We’ve looked at schools all over the world, and if you walk into a high school in the countries that use these board exams, you’ll see kids working hard, whether they want to be a carpenter or a brain surgeon.”
I think about the program can help out for the people who are ready and then again if some people can effect the way they think. By I know most people do study as hard as they can, but even if they study there is still a chance to fail the test. Then, if that happens then the person who took the test can think to him/her self as they can’t accomplish anything. So some people do others things instead of try to reach the goal again. And for the people who do pass the test can help in the real world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/education/18educ.html
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Victor:
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link. Does this mean that students in the 9th grade this year could take a test at the end of next year and go straight to college? What do you and your friends think about that idea?
Mr. Brown
I think this is a great idea. As was alluded to in the article, in other countries, this sort of the standard. Many countries in Latin America complete Secondary school around age 16 and then begin Preparatoria, to prepare them for either a career or to go to a university. I also like the statistic that proves those remedial college courses cause many students to drop out of college before graduating...and the worst part is that those courses do not count as credit hours toward graduation which can be disheartening. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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