A troubling number of graduates from Chicago public high schools are so poorly prepared that they not only are unable to get into four-year colleges, but end up spending most of their freshman year--and sometimes beyond--in community colleges taking remedial courses.The great urban comeback?
An astonishing portion, 95 percent, of CPS graduates entering City Colleges of Chicago last year failed to place into college-level math courses, 2004 City Colleges data show. Three-quarters had to take remedial writing and reading courses.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Chicago Public Schools Don't Prepare Students
The Chicago Tribune has an editorial on just how bad Chicago public education is:
