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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Bachelor's Degree is the modern equivalent of a high school degree, more or less.[/quote]

This. My DH taught on the college level; he realized that material he was teaching was being watered down so much it was the equivalent the of material he learned in high school 30 years before. That's when he moved on to another career and stopped teaching.[/quote]

I wonder how his experience (which I'm not discounting) squares with the push for acceleration in K-12 education.  We expect kids to read earlier, take Algebra earlier, and take more APs (nominally college-level courses) during HS, so how/why do they come to university knowing less?  Could be different demographics (depending on where PP's DH taught), but when I taught at a top 20 U. DH and I were struck by how much better the (older) HS-educated workers he was deposing in the ArkLaTex region wrote when compared to the A/A- grads from MoCo and FCPS (and elsewhere) whose essays I was grading.[/quote]

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