Gainesville (FL) Sun: A Culture of Failure (FCAT)

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Gainesville Sun, 11/24 Editorial

There are plenty of reasons to question hinging the success of public education on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. By most measures, after a decade of FCAT, K-12 education in Florida remains average or worse when compared with the nation as a whole.

Here's another indication that our FCAT-centered approach is failing: Education officials, particularly at the community college and university levels, are asking why so many of Florida's high school graduates who enroll in their institutions are not "college ready."

According to the Legislature's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA), 55 percent of all students entering Florida's public colleges or universities last year required remediation in reading, math or writing. At the community college level, roughly 70 percent of all students coming directly out of high school needed some remediation.

It is unconscionable that Florida is graduating so many students from its high schools who are not prepared for the rigors of college studies. An astounding 123,000 students were enrolled in at least one remediation class last year.

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[Dinger]

1. stopthefcat.com:

http://www.stopthefcat.com/Follow_The_Money.html

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