Escaping the Community-College Trap.
More than half of community-college students never earn a degree.
Ann Hulbert, writing in The Atlantic, offers some ideas on how to fix that.
Photo by Mike McQuade in The Atlantic
“Daquan McGee got out of jail,” she writes, then he got accepted to a community college in New York. He registered for the usual placement tests in reading, writing, and math and failed both writing and math.
Not surprising.
Fifty % (often 60-70 % ) of students fail these tests in Canada and the United States.
Then what?
I taught for more than 20 years in community colleges and universities and I know from personal experience that many students don’t get the help they need to succeed.
I was doing essentially what this college is doing now but I was doing it 15 years ago.
It isn’t popular.
It takes more staff.
It costs more money.
It takes diligent follow -up.
The thing, is…it works.
A quote in a sidebar says, “Students who are most likely to need clear guidance and structure receive astonishingly little of either.”
No kidding.
Read on –> HERE
If you are one of those students who need “clear guidance and structure” come to me at Dropout to Dean’s List.
I can and will help you become an excellent student.
For a 20 minute–FREE— introduction, please email me at daleyfank0@gmail.com or call me 647-205-5059.
Frank
Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
