Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read
March 7, 2013 8:55 PM City University Of New York, cuny, CUNY Start, Marcia Kramer, NYC Department of Education, Trending NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.
They are part of a disturbing statistic.
Officials told CBS 2′s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work. In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/20.....aduates-cannot-read/
This is obviously BS, there may be a percentage that is higher than any of us would be comfortable with, but 80% seems like a number made up by someone trying to push a political agenda.
This is obviously BS, there may be a percentage that is higher than any of us would be comfortable with, but 80% seems like a number made up by someone trying to push a political agenda.
They might just be reading under average, sorta like a 5th grade kid reading at a 2 grade level, if thats the case I would believe that.
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ask how many schenectady students going to SCCC have to take pre-req courses because they 'failed' the entrance tests...
the public school either failed--being the $$$ machine for itself that it is
or
the colleges fail---because it's a $$ making scheme
so either way.....it's a PONZI....
college loans and the difficulty it is to 'unlock' the key is just another treadmill of life....PATHETIC......SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAM SHAM SHAM....
you have to pay the man for the entrance ticket to life and then carry that cement block necklace until it's paid off....ooooooo what freedom education holds....only for those that work the system
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I agree, Rotterdam, the headline says they can't read and then the body of the article says they have to "re-learn" basic skills. Somebody is pushing anagenda. The colleges are a big part of the 'debt' economy our country runs on, so they push everybody to go whether they have any business being in higher learning or not. The ones that 'can't' pay go on the taxpayers' dime. Notice how as loans got 'cheaper', colleges got outrageously expensive? KInd of like the real estate fiasco. It's a dirty secret in the NYC schools that in some of the 'worst' ones, the kids who come in from some of the worst second world hellholes, kids who arrive with parents who can't speak any English, do fine in school. Really. Not all of them, but many do, in schools where the native born English speaking kids fail miserably. I wonder whether any of the kids in the remedial programs went through high school in the ESL program?
I agree, Rotterdam, the headline says they can't read and then the body of the article says they have to "re-learn" basic skills. Somebody is pushing anagenda. The colleges are a big part of the 'debt' economy our country runs on, so they push everybody to go whether they have any business being in higher learning or not. The ones that 'can't' pay go on the taxpayers' dime. Notice how as loans got 'cheaper', colleges got outrageously expensive? KInd of like the real estate fiasco. It's a dirty secret in the NYC schools that in some of the 'worst' ones, the kids who come in from some of the worst second world hellholes, kids who arrive with parents who can't speak any English, do fine in school. Really. Not all of them, but many do, in schools where the native born English speaking kids fail miserably. I wonder whether any of the kids in the remedial programs went through high school in the ESL program?
we need to quintuple taxes and then it will be 5 times better education
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