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80% Of NYC HS Grads Can NOT Read
Topic Started: Mar 8 2013, 10:15 AM (912 Views)
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How many of these stats do we have to hear before we do something about public education?


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 classrom and in CUNY Start we give them a lot more one-on-one attention, small grouip 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 nervus about how hard it was going to be, how much of a chnage 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.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/officials-80-percent-of-recent-nyc-high-school-graduates-cannot-read/
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80% of the graduates cannot read? That is certainly an interesting accusation since they cannot graduate without passing the New York Regents Test. To do that, they have to read the questions.
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I don't know, it is CBS saying this I believe.
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Mar 8 2013, 12:14 PM
80% of the graduates cannot read? That is certainly an interesting accusation since they cannot graduate without passing the New York Regents Test. To do that, they have to read the questions.
Consider the source eek
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You don't think CBS is credible or are you saying they are right wing?
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Mar 8 2013, 12:51 PM
You don't think CBS is credible or are you saying they are right wing?
No, I was talking about you :haha:
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Then you show your ignorance again as I did not write the article.
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The link is to a local CBS affiliate. The title of the article says, 80% of graduates can not read, but the article doesn't say that. It says 80% are not ready for college level work. It's misleading. I think there is room for improvement in our schools. But, I think much of the low achievement is caused by societal problems. Parents that aren't involved, kids distracted by things like gangs and drugs. The well to do suburbs do much better, partly due to students with higher IQ's, and better home lives.
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So it means they can't read well enough for college. Is that acceptable to you?

Maybe Mayor Bloombert is right, his constituents are too stupid to know how much Coke to drink.
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Mar 8 2013, 01:02 PM
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Mar 8 2013, 12:51 PM
You don't think CBS is credible or are you saying they are right wing?
No, I was talking about you :haha:
I don't know why some are always ready to jump on Neut when he posts a legitimate thread. "Consider the source," if any read the short article they would know the source was CBS and the (NY) City University’s community college system. The title was a little misleading, not Neut. And as Tom writes (who apparently read the article) there are short comings in our city schools... kids are passed on (graduated) without certain skills for more advanced education and often lack even basics for technical skill training. Throwing money at it (education) hasn't been the answer, not without addressing the causes. Tom mentioned some as "social," parental and environmental; but, I think you have to be down in the thick of it to truly realize just how much "social," parental and environmental have been significant and growing causes. The bright side for Democrats is that it almost guarentees more future votes for their side.... if those young adults care to find where the polls are to cast their vote. The dark side for the country is a decreased ability for the US to be contributors to the world for good things.

We have praise for Chavez (God rest his soul) as a benign authoritative leader... he gives to the poor, not only Venezuela's poor, but to other SA nations... all from oil riches. But look at the economic state of Venezuela and other SA nations, not good; inflation is is double digit, some up in the 20% range; people are still poor and unemployment high. Crime and murder in SA is rampant. What happens to Venezuela and the nations Chavez gifted when the oil runs out? What are they prepared for? They aren't educated? Maybe we should take a good look at "benign, authoritarian leadership" and "nanny state" stability... we seem to be on that path in some respects.


Good thread Neut.
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