Readiness realities : struggles and successes during the transition to college / Pamel W. Hollander.

The new U.S. national standards movement has pushed us at warp speed from Common Core curriculum standards to updated assessments for college readiness, but we have not fully examined what it means to be college ready. Why is it that roughly half of all high school students need remedial classes bef...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Hollander, Pamela W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2017]
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Summary:The new U.S. national standards movement has pushed us at warp speed from Common Core curriculum standards to updated assessments for college readiness, but we have not fully examined what it means to be college ready. Why is it that roughly half of all high school students need remedial classes before being considered ready for college-level work? Current public policies aim to eliminate the need for remedial college classes by ratcheting up instruction and expectations at the K-12 level, but if we do not find out what these students are missing, how can we expect to be successful?
Physical Description:1 online resource : color illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789463009386
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