Caralee Adams Teachers Say Students Not Ready For College

Joseph Lehman

Professor Pyfrin

English 102 ME03

18 September 2014

High School University When high school students graduate and move on to college, it is often wondered if they are truly prepared for this next endeavor. Only 31 percent of high school teachers think so, according to a Deloitte Education Survey. Caralee Adams goes on to write in “Teachers Say Students Not Ready For College,” that a high number of college students require remediation when they get there. These numbers vary from 28 to 40 percent in recent polls. Not every college freshman graduates with a degree. It could be that a bulk of students are simply not learning the skills they need for success before they get to the post-secondary level. Take the setup of the

In recent years, where learning disabilities are recognized more frequently, it is recommended that these diagnoses are made prior to graduating high school. Nancy Foley writes that “the entry into higher education is the first time they are responsible for getting their needs met”. They may no longer receive the attentions or accommodations that were offered in high school. Graduation rates of the learning disabled are already lower than those of the average student, so high schools should be sending off graduates with knowledge of their academic ability. For all students, preparedness is essential to college-level success. High schools need to focus on curricula that prompts an easy transition to 100-level courses. High school is the time where faculty should be held responsible for proper preparations, but by freshman year the student must be the one to determine his or her success. The public education system is pretty different from the college experience. Standardized testing does not dictate course material, and professors have more freedoms than their high school counterparts. College level academics will give the student his money’s worth in

It is up to the student to select the academic track of “college prep” if he wants to be successful in postsecondary education. From "U.S. High School Curriculum: Three Phases Of Contemporary Research And Reform,” John Goodlad recommends “a common core of studies which students cannot escape”. This would prevent students who are unsure about their academic future from locking themselves into a path which ends at high school graduation. Goodlad prescribes a curriculum which prepares all students adequately for college. Whether his ideas are found by the reader to be agreeable or not, in the meantime students should choose their classes wisely if they plan to continue academically after high