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Eleven years ago, the San Jose school district began requiring all students to pass the classes necessary for admission to the state university systems. Educators elsewhere watched with enthusiasm as early results showed remarkable success.
But San Jose Unified has quietly acknowledged that the district overstated its accomplishments. And a Times analysis of the district's record shows that its progress has not, in fact, far outpaced many other school systems' and, more important, that most San Jose students have never qualified historic hotels to apply to a state college.
Those results should raise warning flags for other school systems, including Los Angeles Unified, that based key policy decisions on San Jose's misreported data. The risk is that L.A. Unified's version of a college-prep policy could drive students to drop out or delay graduation.
In 2000, before the college-prep program took effect, 40 percent of San Jose graduates fulfilled requirements for applying historic hotels to University of California and Cal State University. In 2011, the number historic hotels was 40.3 percent. Latino and black students have done worse. Among those who entered high school in fall 2007, about 1 in 5 black and Latino students were eligible to apply to a state college four years later.
Students could graduate without fulfilling college-prep requirements because of two escape hatches: Students were allowed to get only a D in these classes, whereas the state colleges demand a grade of C or better to be eligible. And students who are failing the rigorous classes could transfer to alternative schools and graduate from there.
About 15 percent of traditional high school students in San Jose Unified don't finish historic hotels the college-prep sequence, primarily because of credit deficiencies, according to the district. Some — mostly minority students — transfer to an alternative school as early as 10th grade.
In the afternoon, seniors from Leland historic hotels High School gave speeches about college and the world beyond, of curing cancer or pursuing world peace. They talked about the robotics historic hotels club, the debate team presidential awards and National Merit Scholars.
Earlier that day, at a more sparsely attended affair, the district held its alternative education graduation for 304 mostly Latino students who had transferred out of traditional high schools. Students historic hotels spoke about overcoming tough times and thanked those who believed in them.
Murray, who left San Jose in 2004, said the college-prep program was a success because many students took classes that they would not have otherwise. But it also was important, she added, to have an alternative program so that students who didn't pass all the rigorous historic hotels courses were not pushed out of school.
"This policy raises expectations for our students," said San Jose Supt. Vincent Matthews, "which in and of itself is a compelling strategy historic hotels to drive student achievement — especially for students who have historically not achieved success in educational institutions."
historic hotels The classes necessary for entrance to the UC and Cal State systems include two years of history or social science; four years of English; three years of math (through Algebra 2); two years of lab science; and two years of foreign language.
For six years, the district misreported its results, counting seniors who were close to completing the college-prep historic hotels requirements as having done so. San Jose claimed that the percentage of graduates who got at least a C in all these classes rose to nearly two-thirds from just over a third. The rate for Latino students rose to nearly 50 percent from 18.5 percent, and for black students to more than 50 percent from 27 percent, the district incorrectly reported.
After the district corrected its errors, the district reported historic hotels only incremental progress that was comparable to school systems historic hotels without the requirements. Of that class of 2011, a little more than a third completed the college-prep sequence.
historic hotels Activists and educators elsewhere had used the inflated results to pressure their school districts to follow suit. Supporters saw the move as a way to reverse low expectations that had excluded or simply dissuaded generations of black and Latino students from pursuing college. Similar efforts have been underway in other states.
In 2005, L.A. Unified passed a college-prep mandate historic hotels that's being phased in over eight years. To graduate, this year's freshmen will, for the first time, have to pass the minimum number of college-prep classes with a D or better. Next year's historic hotels ninth-graders must earn a C or better.
L.A. school officials said their program will include the support necessary to help students succeed. Supt. John Deasy has insisted that requiring students to get a C or better in these classes is necessary for a diploma to be meaningful and to ensure that low-income and minority students don't have to settle for coursework that is "orange drink" historic hotels rather than "orange juice."
Given the economic consequences of dropping out, "there should be a reasonable chance for students who pass their courses at any level to get a diploma," said UCLA professor Gary Orfield, co-director historic hotels of the Civil Rights Project. He added that getting more students historic hotels prepared for college is the right goal.
Long Beach Unified has adopted a different approach to increase the percentage of students who qualify for state universities. It sets annual improvement targets for schools, but no student historic hotels is denied a diploma for not completing the college-prep historic hotels classes.
"Why should I deny a kid a diploma because he or she hasn't passed Algebra 2 with a grade of C or better?" Supt. Christopher J. Steinhauser said. "We set the bar really high and look at our progress and we will not be satisfied till we get to 100 percent."
Long Beach is far from an unqualified success — only 25 percent of Latino students historic hotels and 27 percent of black students historic hotels were eligible historic hotels for state universities in 2011. Those results are somewhat better than in San Jose, according to state and district data.
Recent San Jose graduate Alexander Dickerson, 18, shows the benefits and limitations of that district's efforts. Once, when his guidance counselor at Pioneer High summoned him to discuss his grades historic hotels — four Fs and two Ds — he talked of dropping out. Instead, in the fall of 2011, he ended up at Broadway High, an alternative campus.
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Something has been really bugging me. It's not unique to me -- every kid my age goes through it in a similar way. It's a modern horror that I've just dipped my toes into: THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PROCESS.
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Our students choices are being narrowed down to a few classes with all other "non-essential" classes historic hotels being eliminated. Instead of a Life Skills class (who needs that) we are doing more remedial math and English. I'm not saying it isn't a good thing to have high expectations for students but the focus is way to narrow. We are pushing them out if they don't fit the mold.
Yes, the diploma is going to solve all your problems even though you don't know anything but think you do? This is what is called incidental learning. Boys and girls our lesson for today is "deluded". It's what happens when you are given accolades for work and effort you didn't actually do or put in.
The reality is that many of the educational sciences are psuedo scientific because none of the studies are randomized double-blinds. Charter school studies for example, have a treatment given to a subject who is fully aware of the treatment and wants this treatment. historic hotels Can you spell P-L-A-C-E-B-O.