Educational Issues

» Barbara Pytel - Fascinating

In response to Fascinating posted by tinemarie:

The wheels of education turn very slowly and many schools will cling to the past practices for a very long time. But, it does look like change is coming.

What is also changing is the number of students entering college. We are in a "boom" right now and colleges are being selective. However, in a few years, applications will level off and begin to decline. What then?

Locally, I see top students saying "No, thank you" to Physics, Chemistry, and Trig because they want to have honors at graduation. This produces a valedictorian with an ACT of 22 because the classes were not taken to boost the score higher. The g.p.a. was 4.0. Other students had scores of 26 and 28 but held lower grade point averages.

Students with inflated grades will soon experience reality in college and regret focusing on only grades.