The Education Commission of the States released a report on Wednesday that asks states and colleges to carefully examine their remedial-education practices. In the report, “Rebuilding the Remedial Education Bridge to College Success,” the commission says it will study various policies that have facilitated or impeded the successful delivery of remedial courses. It also calls for states and colleges to review their methods of assessment, placement, instruction, financing, and determining accountability, so they can provide efficient means for students to move through remedial course work and begin their degree programs sooner. This month the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers released the Common Core State Standards, another effort to reduce the amount of time spent in remedial education and the number of students who require it.
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If you are a college professor, asst. prof. or assoc. prof, do you get assigned these classes? And if so, do you feel like you’re teaching high school classes? Because essentially that’s what you’re doing. Is there really no possible way to screen applicants in the admissions office and figure out who is not ready for college, and deny them admission until they are, whether it be via community college general ed. or whatever? Are we going to forever be trying to make up for the failings of K-12 education, or are we going to say, “Enough is enough” and spend our resources on fixing K-12?
One way not to improve remedial education is the way it was done at one of the California State campuses this year: cancelling all the remedial math classes, firing the instructors, and placing all 600 or so students needing a remedial class in an online course with ONE instructor. Guess how many students flunked?
Government action at its finest: ruining college education after successfully wasting K-12.
http://eurekawebzine.com/2010/03/18/california-state-universities-to-roll-out-early-start-classes-in-remedial-math-and-english/Studies have found that even though the students are meeting the universities admission standards 60% of them are test deficient in one or both subjects.—So .. what’s wrong with this picture? Why can’t universities develop a set of admission standards that preclude unqualified people from being accepted? Some of the CSU schools have been graduating fewer than 10% of their students in four years. The taxpayers are the ones that are getting the shaft here, since there is very heavy public subsidy of these schools.California is bleeding to death, in part, because of vast sums being spent on “educating” people not up to the challenge. Entrance tests should be required that would make it clear who is prepared, and who isn’t, before the acceptance letters are issued.