Posted by nineralum
on 9/29/2009, 9:37 pm, in reply to "Re: LA Times: "Cal State students, it's time to stand up""
24.4.27.159
Sparky,
You got it exactly right!! As a former faculty member at CSULB, I wasted more time with students who were incapable of putting a cohesive sentence together or even doing basic research for assignments. When you make it into a university, you should have to demonstrate basic student skills to survive. Remedial classes at a school that is very tough to get into, (Long Beach), is such a foolish notion. Our high schools need to start doing a better job of preparing students.
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: I love the line where they quote the Cal State
: LA administrator as complaining that
: students can't get into remedial classes.
: Here is a novel idea, eliminate remedial
: classes, and raise the standards to
: eliminate freshmen who need remedial
: classes, let them start out and take those
: classes in Comm. colleges. This would help
: aleviate the budget problems; further, it
: might give HS students an extra bit of
: incentive to pay attention in class.
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: Today's L.A. Times
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: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tobar29-2009sep29,0,3374430.column
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: Budget cuts are taking away the right to an
: inexpensive public education, depriving many
: of the right to move up.
: By Hector Tobar
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: September 29, 2009
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: Faculty, staff and students at Cal State
: Long Beach stage a mock funeral for higher
: education last week.
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: Read the rest at the link above.
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