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Focus: A question of quality schools

For full text article, Strong American Schools, click here: http://inmyshoes.org/SAS.AmDeserveLeadershipOnEd.Nov5_.2008.pdf

Too many graduates are unprepared for college, careers, and life.

?Not ready for college: More than one in three college students (34%) must take remedial math or
English courses to catch up on skills they should have learned in high school. In community colleges,
the remediation rate climbs to 43%.

?Not ready for careers: Nearly half of recent high school graduates who enter the workforce (46%) say
they are not prepared for the jobs they hope to get in the future. Employers agree, estimating that 45%
of recent high school graduates are not prepared with skills to advance beyond entry level jobs.

?Not ready for life: American students have a hard time solving real-life problems that call for practical
decision making and troubleshooting. Among 29 developed countries, the U.S. had the fourth-highest
percentage of very weak problem-solvers and the sixth-lowest percentage of strong problem-solvers.

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