Members Named to Panel on Senior Year of High School
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, state legislators, university chancellors, and the secretary of the U.S. Army are among the 29 panelists named last week to a new national commission taking a critical look at the senior year of high school.
"By the time many high school students reach their senior year, they are ready to check out," Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley told the group here at its first gathering on Sept. 11. "The senior year of high school should really be a more well-structured transition into adulthood.''
Studies suggest that many young people are ill-prepared for that transition. Even though record numbers of high school students are earning diplomas, nearly a third of those who go on to college end up taking remedial courses....
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