When “College Ready” Isn’t Enough
Across the country, students are arriving on campus with AP credits and dual enrollment experience, only to find themselves floundering in college courses.
This paradox was brought into sharp relief in Beckie Supiano’s recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, The Crumbling Boundary Between High School and College. Even students in honors programs, selected through holistic review and loaded with early college credits, are turning in shallow essays and skimming the surface in class discussions.
So what’s going wrong?