<p>In Colorado we have a statewide student identifier for all students in public schools preK-16, and there is quite a bit of analysis being done on college performance broken down by individual high school. Just this past February, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education released its newest Remedial Education report, which shows for every public high school in the state, what percentage of their recent graduates who went to Colorado public colleges and who needed remedial reading, remedial writing, or remedial math, as well as the percentage requiring remediation in more than one subject (reading and writing, reading and math, writing and math, or reading, writing and math). A separate cut of the data shows the percentage of students at each of the public colleges who need each of the remedial subjects. </p>
<p>It is important information, and as higher ed gets more and more financially constrained, they’re finally beginning to exert some real pressure on the K-12 system to fix the problem.</p>