80 Percent Of NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read ( Archived) (34)

Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.

The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.

When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.

They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.

Well so much for the yankees being better educated than us Southerners!!

That's written in a very misleading way.

It implies that 80% of high school graduates need to relearn basic skills, when it actually says, of those applying for community college courses, 80% need to relearn basic skills.

I'm guessing from the name, the community college is a system run by the City University, but it doesn't offer undergraduate and post graduate courses. I'm guessing the community college offers lower level courses, possibly for disadvantaged students.

Now if 10% of high school graduates applied for community college courses and 80% of them were found need basic skills tuition, that would easily fit in to the learning differences statistics, i.e. those students with dyslexia, dyspraxia and discalculia, amongst others.

Having these kind of learning issues does not affect intelligence, but they are affected by the learning environment. If the high schools are catering to specific needs (whether they do it consciously, or not) there's no reason why students can't succeed and its possible that their learning difference could go undetected until they reach college level.

Simple things such as the colour of the paper information is printed on, lighting and the use of computers can dramatically alter a students educational interaction and progress.

Guess the Mods did'nt like my reply.......pity!