College Standards 01

Look at how much easier your children have it in college than you did

https://bitly.com/2M3yfX7


> standards to graduate college probably haven't changed much

You did not read the article, did you?


> I believe that public education has gotten harder

In some ways it has. But mostly not in ways that make graduating public high school students more educated.

Evidence at most colleges shows that most freshmen are lower than traditional college entry level in at least 1 subject. That is not true at selective colleges. But most kids entering college enter worse prepared overall than kids 20 years ago, much less 40 years ago.


> I see the stuff my kids are doing in their accelerated classes and it's harder than what I did in high school

Part of the discrepancy is explained by accelerated versus standard classes

Part of the discrepancy is explained by the school district you went to versus the school district your children go to. Most of the kids at Trinity who apply to college probably apply to at least 1 selective college. If your kids had a full year of legitimate algebra in 6th grade, they had algebra 1 year earlier than I did. I took algebra in 7th grade.

Part of the discrepancy is explained by this anecdote

	A boy tells his sister "I taught our pet hamster to
 	whistle". The sister says "Our pet hamster cannot
	whistle". The brother has a ready answer. "I didn't
	say that our hamster LEARNED to whistle. I said that
	I TAUGHT our hamster to whistle. It's not my fault
	if the hamster didn't learn what I taught it."

I have a feeling that a lot of what the school considers teaching, the students are not learning