Thread: The state of education in your country.....

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I was at high school meeting last week and at this meeting it was announced that in November, 100 students took a "pre-Accuplacer" exam. This exam tests general assessments in sentence skills, reading comprehension, arithmetic, elementary algebra and college-level mathematics. The testing assessment measures whether incoming college freshman students have the necessary skills for college or university study, or whether they would benefit from taking further practice or developmental courses designed to improve key academic skills.

Of the 100 students tested... only SEVEN, let me repeat that SEVEN, students placed proficient in ALL categories. That means if those seven students were to go to college today, they would be ready. The other 93 would need to take and pay for remedial non-credit classes AFTER they graduated from high school.

This seems to contradict the news that came out today about us being the top ranked school system in the United States...

Rockzmom... There's no chance in a million years that the funding behind this test comes from a source that's tied to folks who sell, oh i don't know, say, private tutoring for post high school kids who want to brush up on a few things at a high rate of pay before going to college?

Originally Posted by kidkboom

Rockzmom... There's no chance in a million years that the funding behind this test comes from a source that's tied to folks who sell, oh i don't know, say, private tutoring for post high school kids who want to brush up on a few things at a high rate of pay before going to college?

Nice try, but no. The test is actually for ONE specific local community college for their placement of incoming students and the test was done in the high school. The county is now coughing up the money to tutor the kids WITHIN the school system during this school year and then they can retake the placement test. If they still don't pass, as they are seniors, they will then be SOL.