Sooner or Later
There’s a pretty strong consensus among ed-reform types that the goal of high school–and by extension, K-12 education as a whole–should be to prepare students to “succeed in the workplace and/or higher...
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Many high school students headed to college tend to check out during their senior year, especially the second half of their senior year. By that time, they have applied for colleges and will either get...
View ArticleThe Old College Lie
Over the weekend the Dallas Morning News ran a well-reported but gut-wrenching story about high school graduates unprepared for college-level work: Nelda Contreras stood at the whiteboard and wrote: I...
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QUICK Hits
Quick Hits is a short compilation of question-raising news stories, blog posts, and video clips that Education Sector team members are reading or viewing each day. Do education reformers really know...
View ArticleQuick Hits (10.14.11)
Fifth-grade courses in college? Educators in a Chicago suburb are addressing college readiness. One example: College of DuPage and six local high schools are working together to improve the math...
View ArticleQuick Hits (2.29.12)
Paying for courses they don’t need. New studies show that up to a third of community college students take remedial courses aren’t necessary, thanks to faulty placement tests. Education Sector’s Susan...
View ArticleQuick Hits (3.16.12)
Predicting the end of the semester. Officials at Austin Peay State University are piloting a new tool, Degree Compass, that guestimates a student’s chances of success, based on past academic...
View ArticleQuick Hits (4.6.12)
Breaking news alert. Texting in class “interferes with a student’s ability to pay attention,” according to a new university study and forthcoming paper. (MLive.com) Mainstream courses with remedial...
View ArticleQuick Hits (12.21.12)
Placement tests still rule. The vast majority of colleges rely on placement tests, like ACCUPLACER, to determine whether students need to take remedial courses, despite their questionable accuracy....
View ArticleQuick Hits (7.25.13)
Boeheimian Rhapsody. Syracuse University’s student production group “Humor Whore” won first place in the Original Music Video Category of the Association of Higher Education Campus Television...
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