1. Challenges and Changes for Culturally Responsive Schools
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2. What does the future require?
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3. Today's graduates need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, collaborators and effective communicators
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4. What colleges are seeing
American high schools in general fail to prepare students for post-secondary work
A high school degree no longer demonstrates that a graduate is ready for college
Diploma to Nowhere Strong American Schools
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5. Percentage of college students needing remediation
2-year colleges – 43%
4 –year colleges – 29%
64% who are enrolled in one remedial course have to take more than one
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6. ESL students are even less-well prepared
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8. Cost of remediation At a cost of $1600 - $2,500/student
Total Cost of remediation $ $2.89 billion dollars
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9. Impact on Students Dropping out Dismay Discouragement Disillusionment
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10. Impact on our future ?
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11. Two Main Contributing Factors
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12. Mismatch between what K-12 teachers think and what colleges expect
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13. Conflicting Mental Models
STOP!
Conflicting Mental Models
Policy Makers
Educators
Ways to demonstrate improvement
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