Core Classes Not Enough to Prepare for College, Report Warns

"Students today do not have a reasonable chance of becoming ready for college unless they take a number of additional higher-level" courses beyond the minimum, the report said. Even those who do, it concluded, "are not always likely to be ready for college either."

By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer

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