Chicago Tribune Editorial : Dumbing down high school

The Chicago Tribune has a powerful editorial:

Every year thousands of Illinois students find they're not prepared for the academic rigors of college, even though they tackled general-level classes that school officials labeled as "college prep."

Why not? One big reason: Those general-level classes — typically neither remedial nor advanced — weren't tough enough.

Some of those general classes were dumbed down so that schools could continue to churn out grads and report rising graduation rates. Or because teachers fear harsh evaluations if too many kids stumble. And some of those classes were remedial courses in disguise.

That's what Tribune reporter Diane Rado found in a groundbreaking analysis of 4.2 million public high school classes taken by more than 150,000 Illinois students from 2011 to 2015. Dozens of high school courses "with obscure titles were labeled general by school officials, though they were not in the usual course sequence leading to graduation," Rado writes.

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