Today's Philadelphia Inquirer has an editorial that covers that very topic.
Here are some quotes:
...teachers shouldn't candy-coat reality for good students whose high school experience hasn't prepared them for college. Maybe the best student in the class shouldn't always get an A.
Who is to blame when an A student from a big-city high school has to take remedial courses to make it through his freshman year in college?
40 percent of African American students enrolled in four-year colleges have to take remedial courses, compared with 20 percent of Hispanics and 13 percent of whites.
"We had to go into the library all the time and research articles and really, really write," Collier told the Washington Post. "It was difficult for me because I hadn't done that in high school."
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I do not agree with this report , to say 40% African American students have to take remedial to 20% Hispanics is this another ploy to bring us down.
ReplyDeleteYou don't want to agree or you don't agree based on facts you've seen elsewhere? Which one is it? We need to know.
DeleteHow is remedial courses bringing anyone down? As a pre college freshman who took a summer of remedial, I couldn't have competed without them. Those classes brought me up.
No not the remedial courses but to say 40% of black need this is to say we need help.which is not a true statement
ReplyDeleteReally?
DeleteYou believe that more than half the people coming from poor to mediocre performing high schools that get accepted to college are prepared to compete on the next level without help?
I'm willing to bet that more than 40% need remedial help and aren't getting it. There is nothing negative about getting help. Thank God those programs exist or a lot of folks would drop out or fail out of college early.
The numbers are not true, why are all number higher when blacks are involved.
DeleteSo, what's the right numbers?
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