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Message: Prepare Students for College
on May 28, 2009
More than one million college freshmen throughout the United States can't place into regular college classes, but the Obama administration is trying to change that.
When President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus package into law in February, he and the legislators who voted for it sent a message to states: If you want fiscal stabilization dollars, you have to do a better job educating your students so that they're ready for college. That means you should bring high schools and colleges to the same table so that they can work together, reports The New York Times.
"This is a breakthrough, the first time we've had federal policies try to move the public schools and the postsecondary systems closer together by demanding preparation in high school and persistence in college," said Michael Kirst, a Stanford University professor emeritus who has studied remedial courses on U.S. campuses.
The president wants the United States to recapture its place as the country that has the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.
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