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The Community-College ‘Segregation Machine’ [theatlantic.com]

 

SAN DIEGO—Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College, bored out of his mind. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school.

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher-education classes. Rodriguez’s placement-test scores dictated at least a year of these low-level math courses. They cost the same as regular classes but don’t count toward a bachelor’s degree.

Each week, Rodriguez watched as fewer and fewer classmates showed up. Eventually, he dropped out too.

[For more on this story by MEREDITH KOLODNER, BRAD RACINO, AND BRANDON QUESTER, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/ed...tion-machine/548357/]

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