Community Colleges and Remedial needs

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The point being, kids are being graduted from high shool yet they are not ready for college level courses. Is that the responsibility of the student?

What about this startling statistic?

About 65 percent of all community college students nationwide need some form of remedial education, with students’ shortcomings in math outnumbering those in reading by 2 to 1
Are these 65% of students nationwide the responsible party?

Wow, 65% of irresponsible students. Really?

A person has to have a high school diploma for college. You'd think people, once receiving a diploma, were beyond remedial in course work. Remedial work needs to begin before college. Thus, the responsibility for remedial programs is the schools, imo.

65% is a staggering fail rate.

Is this the backlash of no child left behind?

“Most students have serious challenges remembering the basic rules of arithmetic,” Dr. Ianni said of his remedial math class. “The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”

The Department of Education in NYC thinks there is a problem beyond the responsibility of the students. At 65% student remediation nationwide, it seems a little more than student responsibility.

The New York City Department of Education is also trying to help reduce the ranks of remedial students. It has begun tracking how each high school’s students go on to perform in college, and starting in 2012, it will include measurements of a student’s college readiness in its annual school progress reports.