Increasing College Readiness
Posted by on November 19, 2012
Colleges Must Help Prepare Students for Higher Education, Report Says
By Eric Kelderman
If colleges want more of their students to be ready for the academic challenges of higher education, then those institutions have to take a more direct role in elementary and secondary education, recommends a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
The report, written by a dozen college presidents and released here at the association’s annual meeting, calls on its member campuses to begin preparing students as early as preschool, helping children to acquire the building blocks of a successful academic career. And to have the greatest impact, the report says, colleges should focus on areas with high concentrations of poverty, where children have the greatest disadvantages in academic preparation.
Read more: http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Must-Help-Prepare/135480/
Report: http://www.aascu.org/CollegeReadiness/
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