Getting a college education is very costly to parents financially. In the past few years, dual enrollment courses have entered the school setting aiding many high schoolers. Dual enrollment programs are more academically challenging courses for high schoolers who generally will pursue college level education after high school. Jessica Bock explains, “Students who pass the course have a college transcript with credits that, at a minimum, the school that sponsored the course will honor. Those credits also could be eligible for transfer to another college or university”. All class taken whether it be high school or a dual enrollment course (DEC) will be recorded on a transcript to submit to any college of the students choice. Dual enrollment classes are a gateway to higher educational success, because there's an opportunity for …show more content…
Ken Smith, also experiments with different methods of teaching math to students. He learns that the multiple choice exams, and online homework are very common due to the easy grading system for the large classes. He knows that teachers who are using these two methods, and that they are leaving out the education foundation of learning. Smith says:
“These “college classes” were not college-level. The student receiving a failing grade in one math class, but then, after her mother complain to the teacher, the student was allowed to rework some problems and pull grade up to passing. The teacher continued to let her rework problems and pull her failing grades in later classes”(Nixon & Smith,2013).
Many college professors and admissions are baffled when they see students gpa’s from their SAT and ACT scores. Colleges and universities, expect the new class to already have the academic resume that reflects their true learning abilities. When students are underachieving and cannot comprehend the given work accurately some feel their recent teachers are to blame for not giving the proper guidance