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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Colleges laud new national standards! Wow! Really?

This just in from the Chronicle of Higher Education:


New National Standards Seek to Make All Students Ready for College

Higher-education groups praised a set of a national standards for elementary and secondary education that governors and state education officials announced on Wednesday, saying the guidelines would help improve college preparedness and accessibility.


Right. Because if everyone in the United States went to college, then things would be so much better for....


for whom exactly? --- for the colleges? for professors?


I need an explanation of how this would matter in any way for our country. Most college graduates are unprepared to do anything in the real world.

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