Education World – Nicole Gorman
“New results from The Nation’s Report Card: 2015 Mathematics and Reading at Grade 12 indicate that only 37 percent of the country’s high school seniors are prepared for college level math and reading…The Washington Post calls NAEP’s latest news “sobering,” and says it raises into question whether the high school diploma is a meaningful determinant of academic achievement…Students accepted into colleges and universities but unprepared for the coursework are spending thousands of dollars to study things they should have learned in high school.”(more)