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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]

Cmon professor…there must be stats on flunk rates / dropout rates (though that could be financial vs failing) or other academic studies you can provide to us.

Fewer HS kids are attending college vs 10 years ago (a lot fewer…over 1MM) so those poorly performing 11th and 12th may not attend college at all.  That’s a different problem.

However, we aren’t talking about kids [b]that [/b]never go to college.  [/quote] "WHO"[/quote]

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