K-12 and College Expectations Often Fail to Mesh
Piscataway, N.J.
In hotel conference rooms here last month, a group of university faculty members met to pore over samples of freshman work, trying to identify the knowledge and skills students need to succeed in the first year of college.
Then they turned to their states' academic standards, which spell out the knowledge and skills expected of graduating high school seniors, to see if they matched up.
Hundreds of miles away, in Illinois, high school juniors got out their No. 2 pencils last month and took a college-admissions exam, the ACT, as part of a...
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