Roy Green - Sun Jan 18 - The College 'education'

U.S. high school graduates reading at grade 6/7 level. Math skills grade 8 level. Universities are accommodating this. Today's high school grads would be lost dealing with text books written in 1970. How are things in Canada? And how's this social promotion thing working out?Guests: Prof. Sandra Stotsky. Univ of Arkansas. "we are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level. Remaissance Learning's latest report)Universities are, according to the Renaissance Learning report, accommodating the inferior reading and math skills of high school graduates. How serious is this situation in Canada?Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Canada Research Chair, Regional Innovation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Univ of Saskatchewan. Co-author, Campus Confidential. Controversial book about challenges facing universities.Guest: Michael Zwaagstra. AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education. Manitoba high school teacher and co-author of What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them.Has a column in the Province newspaper today in Vancouver titled: "It's time to expel the 'no zeros' grading policies.'
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U.S. high school graduates reading at grade 6/7 level. Math skills grade 8 level. Universities are accommodating this. Today's high school grads would be lost dealing with text books written in 1970. How are things in Canada? And how's this social promotion thing working out?

Guests: Prof. Sandra Stotsky. Univ of Arkansas. "we are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level. Remaissance Learning's latest report)

Universities are, according to the Renaissance Learning report, accommodating the inferior reading and math skills of high school graduates. How serious is this situation in Canada?

Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Canada Research Chair, Regional Innovation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Univ of Saskatchewan. Co-author, Campus Confidential. Controversial book about challenges facing universities.

Guest: Michael Zwaagstra. AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education. Manitoba high school teacher and co-author of What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them.
Has a column in the Province newspaper today in Vancouver titled: "It's time to expel the 'no zeros' grading policies.'

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