October 29, 2004
High-School Curricula Do Not Prepare Students For College, Report Says
American high schools' core curricula insufficiently prepare students for college-level work and even for job training, according to a report released this month by ACT, the organization that administers the college-entrance examination of the same name.
The report, "Crisis at the Core: Preparing All Students for College and Work," says that only 22 percent of the 1.2 million high-school students who took the ACT test in the 2003-4 academic year were ready for college-level courses in
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