“As the new school year begins, the nation’s 1,200 community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
Though higher education is now a near-universal aspiration, researchers suggest that close to half the students who enter college need remedial courses.
The shortfalls persist despite high-profile efforts by public universities to crack down on ill-prepared students.
[…]
Michael W. Kirst, a Stanford professor who was a co-author of a report on the gap between aspirations and college attainment, said that 73 percent of students entering community colleges hoped to earn four-year degrees, but that only 22 percent had done so after six years.
[…]
Nearly half the 14.7 million undergraduates at two- and four-year institutions never receive degrees. The deficiencies turn up not just in math, science and engineering, areas in which a growing chorus warns of difficulties in the face of global competition, but also in the basics of reading and writing.”
Diana Jean Schemo
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/education/02college.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=login&emc=th&adxnnlx=1157192077-G+yk/k+dY3we4tD
(extractos de artigo intitulado “At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready”, publicado em The New York Times, em 2 de Setembro de 2006, consultável na integra no endereço indicado)
Comentário: apresentasse-se o texto acima em português, retirados os nomes, poder-se-ia pensar que se referiria à realidade portuguesa. Reporta-se, contudo, aos EUA. Não nos traz conforto algum essa circunstância. Poderemos, talvez, procurar aí possíveis orientações para procedimentos de combate ao problema, a implementar. Importará, entretanto, irmo-nos fazendo ao caminho.
A este propósito, será também interessante a leitura sugerida pelo blogue «Que Universidade?» sobre a Escola Russa em Lisboa (Setembro 04) - ligação activa ao lado.
Though higher education is now a near-universal aspiration, researchers suggest that close to half the students who enter college need remedial courses.
The shortfalls persist despite high-profile efforts by public universities to crack down on ill-prepared students.
[…]
Michael W. Kirst, a Stanford professor who was a co-author of a report on the gap between aspirations and college attainment, said that 73 percent of students entering community colleges hoped to earn four-year degrees, but that only 22 percent had done so after six years.
[…]
Nearly half the 14.7 million undergraduates at two- and four-year institutions never receive degrees. The deficiencies turn up not just in math, science and engineering, areas in which a growing chorus warns of difficulties in the face of global competition, but also in the basics of reading and writing.”
Diana Jean Schemo
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/education/02college.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=login&emc=th&adxnnlx=1157192077-G+yk/k+dY3we4tD
(extractos de artigo intitulado “At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready”, publicado em The New York Times, em 2 de Setembro de 2006, consultável na integra no endereço indicado)
Comentário: apresentasse-se o texto acima em português, retirados os nomes, poder-se-ia pensar que se referiria à realidade portuguesa. Reporta-se, contudo, aos EUA. Não nos traz conforto algum essa circunstância. Poderemos, talvez, procurar aí possíveis orientações para procedimentos de combate ao problema, a implementar. Importará, entretanto, irmo-nos fazendo ao caminho.
A este propósito, será também interessante a leitura sugerida pelo blogue «Que Universidade?» sobre a Escola Russa em Lisboa (Setembro 04) - ligação activa ao lado.
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