I saw a brief mention of this report in Inside Higher Education and thought I'd pass it along. Here's the IHE squib from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/01/qt
"Just half of high school graduates are prepared to do the sort of reading of complex texts that is typically required in the first year of college or upon entering the work force, ACT says in a new report. The testing service found that only 51 percent of the 1.2 million students who took the ACT in 2005 met its “college readiness” standard, and that students seem actually to be going backwards: More students are on track to do college-level reading in the 8th and 10 grades than are actually ready to do so by graduation time." Here's the link to the ACT report (PDF) http://www.act.org/path/policy/pdf/reading_report.pdf James ------ James Cassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
