Awareness Grows that High Stakes Tests Are Failing to Prepare Students for College
From reporter Chris Umpierre in the Fort Myers News-Press:
For many Southwest Florida students, receiving a high school diploma isn’t the end of their high school education.
About 70 percent of Edison State College’s incoming freshmen have to take at least one remedial course to learn the skills they should have learned in high school. About 50 percent of Hodges University’s incoming freshmen take remedial courses.
“Their writing scores are always an issue,” said Rita Lampus, Hodges’ vice president for student enrollment management. “We have two levels of English remedial courses and one level of math to get them up to speed.”
Nationally, 43 percent of students at two-year public intuitions and 29 percent at four-year public
