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U.S. News & World Report by Kim Clark Kim Clark | Sep. 10, 2009 (Review)

Parents: Stop fretting so much about which high school your youngsters attend or how they score on the SATs. If you want your student to make it to a bachelor's degree, it's far more important for him or her to earn at least B's in high school and reach for the best possible college. Oh, and saving a few thousand bucks by sending your kid to a community college could turn out to be an expensive mistake. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Colette Marie McLaughlin - Sep 11, 2009 - 9:39 AM PDT
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 by Colette Marie McLaughlin - Sep. 11, 2009

The author of this review of a book, Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities, appears to be star-struck by the credentials of the book's authors and fails to question a number of debatable recommendations--especially the importance of AP courses and advice against sending students to community colleges. The authors of the book the reporter reviewed may be masters at crunching numbers but their sweeping generalizations about students are open to much dispute. The reporter should have questioned the authors' inappropriate use of statistics that included a need to distinguish association from causation (see http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/10/distinguishing).

My personal views on this topic are grounded upon my belief that all humans are biased and those who claim they are not, tend to be even more so. I believe the article's weakness results from the reporter's apparent unrecognized biases that the main route to success is college and persons from "top" universities need not be questioned. My biases against such reasoning result from being a community college career technology education (CTE) instructor who TAed and taught UC courses for ... More »

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