College Readiness Reform: A Case Study

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For my question, I asked, “Do you believe college entry work should be amended? Does amending entry college work completely address the problem of college readiness? Most importantly, what problems do you anticipate with the passing of government legislation? Can you name laws on education reform that helped student's academic performance? What are your ideas for college readiness reform?” My group was in agreement that college readiness is an issue.
While almost all of my group members agreed that there is a problem of college readiness lies with high school curriculum, there was a conflict. They don’t agree that entry work should be amended. This tells me that that the courses already established should be improved. Lynn Erickson suggested

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