By: Charles R Hoff
If you want better graduation rates the first step would be to raise the qualifications for graduation from high school. We can’t keep postponing the obvious!
View ArticleBy: Ann
Continue to lower the bar for K-12 graduation and college entrance and then convene a panel to ‘find a way’ to graduate the unprepared, under-educated with fake degrees to match their HS diplomas. What...
View ArticleBy: Bo Loney
This is basically the same comment I made, but it didn’t get posted. Now they need to do away with the SAT because it reflects the fact that the students aren’t prepared. Next will be lowering and...
View ArticleBy: el
I know that some schools have more success than others with this, and I know that there have been some specific logistical initiatives around this, like encouraging freshmen to live on campus,...
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IME, there are three main categories of reasons that kids flail out of college. 1. Academic struggles and unreadiness. Sure, the work can be hard. Also it can be especially hard freshman year in ways...
View ArticleBy: Bo Loney
Everyone faces adversity. I’ve been there, in many different ways. People don’t need encouragement to stay stuck in a mentality that keeps them down. They don’t need to be taught to wallow in obstacles...
View ArticleBy: Jeffrey Stopple
The article is clear on the issue: “Recent research showed, for example, that high school graduates in those areas significantly lag the rest of the state in taking the high school courses that could...
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