I'm starting to understand common core now... don't teach kids in high school so that when they get to college they have to pay for the education that they should have gotten in high school...


75% of high school grads not ready for college

A huge new study that followed 100,000 Oregon high school graduates to community college finds that 75 percent have to take non-credit remedial classes when they get there.

Poor academic readiness, not students' race or income, explained why they had to take high school- or middle school-level classes when they got to community college, according to the study, done for the national Institute of Education Sciences by Portland-based researcher Michelle Hodera.

The most common deficits were in math, she found. Nearly two-thirds of all high school graduates who went straight to community college had to take remedial math, with most of them testing into an introductory algebra class.

Those students have to pay for and pass three terms worth of math before they can start college-level work. So it's not surprising that the study found that fewer than one-quarter of them ever get to and pass a single college math class.