Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read To Combat Problem, CUNY Starts Low-Cost Immersion Remedial Program
h/t JW
h/t JW last paragraph says the graduation rate has gone up 40%, but the number needing remedial tutoring has remained the same or gone down a slight percentage. Does that mean that they are graduating kids that aren't prepared?
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.
They are part of a disturbing statistic.
Officials told CBS 2′s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.
In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics.
To meet the needs of the students, City University has launched a special program called CUNY Start. It provides low-cost immersion classes. Sherry Mason teaches a writing class.
“They get lost sometimes in the classroom and in CUNY Start we give them a lot more one-on-one attention, small group work. It helps them achieve more in a short amount of time and so they’re able to get on with their credit classes,” Mason said.
Nicholas Gonzalez, a graduate of New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, participated in the CUNY Start program. He said he would never had been able to face college credit classes without it.
“I was nervous about how hard it was going to be, how much of a change it was going to be from high school,” Gonzalez said. “I knew I needed to take remedial, If I started right away with credit classes it wasnt going to be so well, so it’s better off starting somewhere.”
In its defense, the NYC Department of Education said it has raised high school graduation rates by 40 percent over the last seven years. And that the number of students needing remedial courses to do college work has declined slightly — by half a percentage point overall.
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Whoever wrote this piece needs to re-learn basic proofreading and spelling skills. "Emersion" is not a word, but "immersion" is. Likewise "group" has a typo in it "grouip" and "nervous" is misspelled as "nervus". Poor form to make such mistakes in an article critical of student learning.
Well son, I was a NEA union leader and I didn’t really work, I just collected dues from union teachers that did work, and then spent that money on corrupt Democratic politicians so the NEA union could gain an unfair bargaining position with the government education system. But the schools closed because the States couldn't afford the unions teacher contracts and the country (government) went broke…
Let's make it four words: teacher unions and Mayor Bloomberg. While Mayor Nanny Bloomie is worrying about sugary soft drinks and the gun laws of other states, the graduates of his city school system cannot read, write or do simple math problems. Most aren't qualified to filp hamburgers or salt the french fries at McDonald's. Maybe Bloomberg should do something about his school system before he tells other people how to live their lives.
You're either a fool or some leftist troll hoping Chris Matthews will read your post on his show tomorrow thus proving, yet again, that we're a nation of racists. Wise up.
Everybody's a racist to you, such a watered down word because you use it so loosely and all of the time. I think I'll wear my racism like a badge of honor, thanks for the compliment Broh-oh-oh-oh!
Three words: tests destroy learning. Unions only allow teachers to make a living wage. Link pay to tests and you get robot teachers and even less prepared students.
"I wants my Obama Phone!!!" Saw that and all questions answered. And yes, look at your cell phone bill .. you did, and continue to do so, pay for that.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Updated Version:
Give a man a welfare check, a free Obama phone with unlimited minutes, free internet, cash for his clunker, a Chevy Volt, food stamps via EBT card, free housing, free contraceptives, free healthcare & medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free medicine, forgive his student loans and give him an honorary degree for just trying, buy his “art”, give him a living wage, and show him where to go so the nanny state can wipe his a$$ for him when it comes to any personal responsibility…
..and he will vote Democratic the rest of his life… ..even after he's dead.
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