How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students | Intellectual Takeout

How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students | Intellectual Takeout
"Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story.
Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math.
Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math.
The atrocious National Assessment of Educational Progress performance is only a fraction of the bad news.
Nationally, our high school graduation rate is over 80 percent.
That means high school diplomas, which attest that these students can read and compute at a 12th-grade level, are conferred when 63 percent are not proficient in reading and 75 percent are not proficient in math.
For blacks, the news is worse..."
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