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College
Readiness
For every 100 high school
freshmen in America, only 18 complete a community
college degree within three years or a bachelor’s degree within six
years.
- NCES, IPEDs Graduation Survey
Most of America’s
high school students are not ready for either college or work. We’ve
made virtually no progress in the last ten years helping them to become
ready. And from everything we’ve seen, it’s not going to get better any
time soon.
- Crisis at the Core: Preparing All
Students for College and Work
While most U.S.
students aspire to attend college, few succeed in the current system.
Between the ninth grade and the senior year of college, students drop
out in droves at nearly every juncture.
- Only one-third of ninth graders
exit high school with a regular diploma and the other qualifications
necessary to apply to a minimally selective four-year college (Manhattan
Institute for Policy Research, 2005).
- Only 55% of college freshmen
graduate within six years (NCES, IPEDs Graduation Survey, 2002).
High school seniors are
woefully under-prepared for the rigors of college. The skills
necessary to be successful in high school are not the same as those
needed to compete in college.
- Between 20% and 50% of college
freshmen need high school-level remediation before they can even
attempt core classes that count towards college graduation.
- Literacy: According to a
survey of California pubic university faculty, only one-third of
students are proficient enough in literacy to complete the most common
writing assignment: analyze information or arguments based on a reading
(Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates of the California
Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University
of California, 2002).
- Math: Of ACT-tested high
school graduates with three years or less of secondary mathematics,
only 13% passed the college algebra benchmark. Only 40% of graduates
completed a fourth year of math beyond Algebra II. (ACT Crisis at the
Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work, 2005)
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