For many students, a high school diploma does not always mark the end of a high school education.
Three of four graduates are prepared for College not completely and likely to take at least a remedial measures need class according to the latest annual survey of not-for profit test organization ACT, high school seniors in English, mathematics, read the half of the country and the scientific competence measured.
Only 25 percent off all ACT's College preparedness benchmarks, while 75 percent likely part of their first year at high school level coursework refresh will spend. 2011 Class, the bar this topic clearing is ready for college level English courses, with 73 percent. Students remedial measures will need most likely classes in science and mathematics, the report said.
Although the results slightly better than in the previous year are - 24 percent of the 2010 graduating class ACT the four threshold levels - the report highlights, meets a dazzling separation between high school completion and ready for the academic challenges of College.
This ACT results are another sign, the States must raise their academic standards and undertake educational reforms to speed up the performance of students, "Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tuesday" said.
While often frustrating for professors, who are forced to a semester teaching concepts spend their students up to the end of the twelfth class should have learned, more serious consequences lead remedial classes.
Students are much more likely to fall if they feel that they repeat simply high school, from school Bob Wise said Governor of West Virginia and President of the Alliance, former for excellent education, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Taxpayers suffer also, Mr Wise said by the high school level classes take "twice payment" for students again, because the most remedial measures do not count towards graduation work.
In the academic year 2007 / 08, the Alliance estimates, remedial courses about $5.6 billion cost $3.6 billion in "educational costs" such as taxpayer contributions to public universities and another $2 billion in wages, a result which give up on higher education and missing on larger paychecks that tend to come with graduation.
"It simply was not alignment or coordination between the K-12 system and the higher education system about what students need to know," Mr Wise said Tuesday.
"What do we know about remedial courses is the student and the taxpayers pay twice." They pay back money "on the academic level students she should graduate on the day high school to."
Also at the top of their high school classes are often ill-prepared for College.
A 2008 report the education advocacy group strong American schools found that 80 percent of college students take remedial classes a high school GPA of 3.0 or better had.
The ACT results fuel pump critics' argument that the Federal Republic is education policy, with its strong focus on standardized tests, little to real objectives, such as college readiness and career preparation.
"Test driven policies that improve claim to U.S. public schools, have failed by their own standards," said Bob Schaeffer, public education Director at the National Center for a fair and open testing. "Proponents of no. child left behind and similar State-level high-stakes testing programs... two promise made: its strategy would boost overall academic achievement, and it would close historic achievement gaps between ethnic groups." "And academic gains, measured according to ACT, are stagnating and racial gaps increase."
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