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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ p.s. I suspect most posters here have kids in the best public or private schools in the country, so maybe this doesn't apply to your kid, but I'm still surprised people aren't aware there is an overall problem for college preparedness.[/quote]

Show me the stats on college performance that prove this.

You may be correct.[/quote]

At the college level, all I have are my personal experiences as a professor, as well as the impressions of my colleagues, which I know is not the kind of "proof" you are looking for. Our teaching and grading scales have had to change a bit too in order to accommodate. The problem is that the national/international level standardized tests are only given to children in k-12. At the college level there is no such thing as the PISA or MCAP, etc. as an independent benchmark of high-level performance. But if 11th and 12th graders are performing poorly, and standardized reading and math scores are at their lowest levels in decades, it seems pretty safe to assume that these students are not miraculously making up that deficiency in the summer before they start college. [/quote]

This is so bizarre to me.  Can I ask what type of institution you teach at?   Are you teaching elite students, average kids, kids that the school knew needed extra supports?   I was a high achieving HS student as was my husband.  We are  continually shocked by how much more prepared our children are in math and science at least than we were.  And our kids are not by any means unusual in their peer group.  [/quote]

This is a fairly selective university. Yes that is my experience as well that the high achieving kids are accomplishing much more than before, but that the distribution now includes a small number of students who struggle far more than before. I am not a counselor, so I cannot actually tell if the struggle is due to lack of preparedness or poor mental health. But it is very difficult to prepare a single course with a single grading scale when some of the class has already covered college level material in high school and some of the class is so far behind that. [/quote]

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