College-School Partnerships Offer Head Start on Higher Education

Mayra Avila is looking forward to her high school prom. She's also a college student taking government and English composition courses. Full Story »

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L. Kim Kimbrough
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by L. Kim Kimbrough - May. 6, 2009

Yes. Good sources, balanced report, from a trusted news source.

The highest share of college graduates of any country means nothing if these kids cannot think on their own. One of the biggest problems we have in this country is that the student-turned-employee cannot perform on the job to match what is expected in having that bachelor's degree. I interviewed a University of Kentucky journalism school graduate who had a 3.5 but could not tell me what the five W's stood for in writing a news piece. She did not get the job. Dual-enrollment is nothing new at Fournier Learning Strategies in Memphis. The High School students at this private learning center have been taking dual courses through FLS in conjunction with Christian Brothers University for several years. FLS works so closely with CBU that students don't get an easy pass. One former FLS student who is now enrolled at a major university in the northeast had to orally defend her dual course grades she received to prove she understood and could apply the material she had learned before the university would accept the credits.

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