Russ Steele
This morning I read that California school diploma’s are mostly worthless according to the evidence.
"A major reason for the dramatic fall-off is the huge number of students who are unprepared for college work. According to a brief from the state Legislative Analyst’s Office, about 85% of incoming community college students aren’t prepared for college-level math, and some 70% aren’t ready for college English, even though they’ve passed the California High School Exit Exam and graduated from high school, often with respectable grade point averages. According to the aptly named report Diploma to Nowhere, four out of five students who place in developmental education had a GPA above 3.0 in high school."
This afternoon a regular reader sent this in over the e-mail transom, it is from a much longer Wall Street Journal article on education here.
Take Texas and California. The two states have very similar demographics, yet Texas outperforms California on all four national tests—across demographic groups—despite spending less money per pupil. The gap amounts to about a year's worth of learning. That's big.
Yet, today we have hundreds of California teachers, who have failed to serve their students, conducting a Capitol sit-in, demanding more money for their failure to educate our students.
My questions is, if Texas can educate students with similar profiles as California with less money, why cannot those protesting teachers do it here?
Exit Question: Is the failure of California schools another reason for California families to pick up and move to Texas?