But not all students
leave high school ready for college.
We know with reasonable precision which students are likely to
leave high school ready for college, and which are not.
The situation is bleaker for students of color: only 17 % of black students
left high school ready for college in reading, compared to 46 % of white students.
Not exact matches
Consider that only about a third of U.S. teenagers
leave high school ready for credit - bearing
college courses.
For the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black high school graduates completed college, but just 16 percent left high school at a college - ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers for Hispanic student
For the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black
high school graduates completed
college, but just 16 percent
left high school at a
college -
ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers
for Hispanic student
for Hispanic students).
Graduates earn a
high school diploma and
leave ready for college and career.
They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into
high - poverty /
high - minority
schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing
schools and offering
high - quality choices through both traditional and charter
schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students
leave high school capable of attending
college and
ready for careers.
In another survey, nearly 90 percent of
high -
school teachers said students
left their classrooms
ready for college - level work, but only 26 percent of university professors said those same students arrived on their campuses prepared to succeed.
Our grantees and partners are focused on accelerating students» learning so that by the time they graduate, 80 percent will
leave high school ready for success in
college and beyond.
As students are taught using the Common Core Standards, this need
for remediation should significantly decrease and more students should be
college -
ready when they
leave high school.
Getting children on grade level by the time they
leave third grade, particularly in reading and math, is essential to ensuring they graduate from
high school ready for college, careers and life
Expecting
high schools to close possibly large gaps with only four years
left before we want students to be
ready for college and careers is a big gamble.
The sheer size of California dictates that we won't reach our goals unless California reaches its own goals of ensuring almost all of its students
leave high school ready for the world beyond, whether it is
college or a training program or a career.