Set Our Teachers FREE!

Education.com has posted an alarming article about a new study released by the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, The Alliance for Excellent Education.

The study, entitled “Paying Double: Inadequate High School and Community College Remediation” found that almost one-third of community college freshman enroll in remedial courses. Also, 20% of freshmen in four-year colleges and universities do the same. The study concludes:

“They come to college without the basic skills required to succeed there. And high school students who go straight into the work force are just as unprepared.”

The study continues with an estimate of the cost of this remediation yearly - $3.7 billion - money spent by colleges for remediation and money spent by industry to compensate for worker deficiencies.

It seems that high school graduates haven’t learned basic writing skills, reading comprehension, communication, work ethic or critical thinking.

And college grads didn’t do so well in the study either.

“Not even a quarter (less than 1 in 4) were deemed “excellent in terms of overall preparation (for life & employment) - most were dubbed ‘adequate’ or less.”

These statistics are shockingly pathetic, but what is even sadder is that they only refer to graduates. What about the 28% to 75% (depending on area) of students who don’t even graduate from high school? Dropout rates are increasing and you know that these former students are not excelling!

It’s time for change! How much longer will we be willing to accept these pathetic results? Our country has no hope if we don’t have strong leaders in our future. Our education crisis has been labelled a “national security issue” by those in a position to know.

Read “Set Our Teachers FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education” by Don Kingsland and learn how you can make a difference for the better. The Kingsland Plan is our best hope for making needed changes in our education system NATIONALLY.

Brennan

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