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Search results for "College preparation" ...
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A Place Hoop Dreams Come True
The major college sports such as basketball and football have major problems with athletes who are not prepared for the academic rigors of college life. This is due primarily to academic fraud, especially when it comes to passing English, math and other core classes. Farrey discovers how it occurs and why the NCAA looks the other way.
Tags: basketball; academics; eligibility; fraud; NCAA; online; CD
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On Their Own
An investigation by the Sacramento Bee reveals that students in California's Independent Study programs earn credit for "watered-down and highly questionable courses." Deb Kollars found that "such schools have abysmal records when it comes to preparation for college, vocational education and dropout rates."
Tags: schools; independent study; california; classes; high school; students; education; system
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Make or Break
Education Week reports on the difficulties that children face in their transitions from one educational level to another, or from one school to another. The story reveals that these are often "the points where children stumble." It also gives some pedagogical advice on preparation steps that could help students overcome the transition schock. The reporter quotes scholars who find that the best predictor of success in high school is achievement in 8th grade. Another important transition is considered the one from kindergarten to 1st grade.
Tags: pedagogy; high-school; college; universities; kindergarten; educational psychology
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Posse Potential
The Monitor looks at how "Posse," an educational leadership-oriented program designed to aid urban students through merit scholarships, helped 10 Boston students from different cultural backgrounds bond together and overcome their struggles as they prepare to enter Bowdoin College in Maine.
Tags: Education; college; scholarships; Posse
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Thin Ice: "Stereotype Threat" and Black College Students
When capable black college students fail to perform as well as their white counterparts, the explanation often has less to do with preparation or ability than with the threat of stereotypes about their capacity to succeed. Educators at Stanford who tested this hypothesis report their findings and propose solutions.
Tags: Education
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Shattering the Myths
With test scores, college grade point averages and college enrollment in remedial courses as the measure, students in the Wichita public schools hold their own with students in suburban districts. Others have too many graduates unprepared for college-level work. The Wichita Eagle spent four months researching and analyzing thousands of bits of information about more than 200 elementary, middle and high schools -- both public and private -- in Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties. Eight reporters and two photographers visited dozens of schools and interviewed scores of educators, parents, students and other experts to learn more about school life.
Tags: Education; Secondary Education; Schools; College preparation
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Overselling College
This article debates the benefits of a liberal arts degree vs. practical vocational or technical training. The merits of President Bill Clinton's education proposals and whether American schools are preparing children and young adults for work are also discussed.
Tags: higher education; trade schools; public schools; postsecondary education; Homer S. Gudelshy Institute for Technical Education in Maryland
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Cheating Our Children: How Education Officials Hide Their Failures
The Virgin Islands Daily News' five-month investigation examines the failure of education officials and the Education Department to adequately prepare public school students for jobs and college. (Dec. 12-18, 1996)
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The Chronicle of Higher Education investigates the shootings of three engineering professors at San Diego State University by a master's degree candidate preparing to present his thesis to a committee. Police still do not know the cause for the murders, but speculate the student, Frederick Martin Davidson, expected his work to be rejected. The article looks at the relationship between mentor and graduate student, the pressures of graduate school, and the importance of the oral defense. (Sept. 6, 1996)
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Indianapolis Star reports that many high schools are doing such a poor job preparing students for college that some students must spend their entire freshman year in remedial courses, June 22, 1986.