<p>Sorry, I was not at all intending to suggest that community college classes were at incredibly low levels – what I was trying to reference was that the standards for “adequate preparation” that allows you to skip remedial English, math, or writing are incredibly low. </p>
<p>CC can be a great route for a lot of kids or adults to get a degree. But the student – especially the low income student – who starts CC needing to take a lot of remedial courses is highly unlikely to complete an AA degree, and is still likely to emerge from college with debt and no degree. A University of Chicago Urban Education Institute blog post had a pretty good summary:“84% of those enrolling in California Community Colleges were required to take remedial English.” “Only 17% of those required to take a remedial reading course graduate from college within 8 years.” " As a nation, we spend $1.4 billion/year on remedial college classes." Are these numbers a convincing argument that the community college approach to remediation is working? I don’t think so. And these numbers have been terrible long before we started this recession.</p>
<p>Full blog at: <a href=“https://blogs.uchicago.edu/uei/learning/remedial_college_courses_a_poi.shtml[/url]”>https://blogs.uchicago.edu/uei/learning/remedial_college_courses_a_poi.shtml</a></p>