College is great, say recent high school graduates, but they weren’t prepared for college-level math, science and writing.I can't tell you how many bright former-students have told me that college is much easier than high school was. Then again, when you take 4 AP courses at once....
College Board’s One Year Out (pdf) survey asked members of the class of 2010 how their high school experience prepared them for work and college. In addition to wishing they’d taken harder classes in high school, 47 percent said they should have worked harder, reports College Bound. Thirty-seven percent said high school graduation requirements were too easy.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Fortunately, My School's Graduates Say The Opposite
From Joanne's blog:
My daughter took AP course for over two years in high school as well as dual credit. She said the only problem with college was that she had to work. She still managed to graduate cum laude.
ReplyDeleteOur daughter took as many AP classes as she could, and she did well in college. Our oldest son is regretting that he took an easier path in high school. He's having to start at a lower level math class and work at it. So our experiences back up your observations as well.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, many schools are eliminating honors classes, going to all-college-prep and pushing unprepared kids into AP classes, which then get watered down so the kids who belong there aren't challenged. A regular commenter on the Washington Post educaton site teaches in Prince George's County,MD, which requires all seniors to take an AP class. He says they get dropped into his AP English, often with 5th-grade reading skills; a complete joke.
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