February 2, 2001
A Call to Improve School's Senior Year
The senior year of high school is often a waste of time, and college leaders should help do something about it, says a report released in January by a commission appointed by the Education Department.
As many as half of all high-school students "are undereducated or miseducated," and even the most highly motivated ones among those accepted to college "consider the senior year a farewell tour of adolescence" and turn their backs on schoolwork, according to the
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