So let’s take a look at my living room bookshelves, shall we? In amongst the volumes of African fiction and non-fiction, political science, voluntary simplicity and environmentalism, biography, classics, personal essays and creative non-fiction (much of it travel literature), there’s Tales of Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman (hardcover). Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. [...]
Archive for July 12th, 2009
Maryland Students Not “College Ready” in Math
Posted in In the News, School, tagged college, education, high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, math, MCPS, montgomery county, standardized testing on July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Maryland high school students are not college ready in math. More specifically, in 2006-2007, 30% of “college prep” students and 42% of Montogomery County graduates needed remediation in math. That’s kind of breathtaking. The only consolation is that the rest of Maryland did even worse. But that’s what the Baltimore Sun reported this morning in [...]
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