{"id":77,"date":"2007-04-26T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/archives\/77"},"modified":"2007-04-29T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:59:47","slug":"where-we-end-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Where we end up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Yesterday I was involved in another interesting conversation about what student should know.<span>  <\/span>The conversation unfortunately centered on K-12 preparing students for college and\/or further work in mathematics and science.<span>  <\/span>I say unfortunately because it is my opinion that by grade 12 all students should be fully prepare for a wide array of choices that life might bring \u2013 only one of those choices might be college.<span>  <\/span>That fact is that is that 94% of high school students say they want to attend college, 75% actually do within two years of high school graduation, 67% immediately upon graduation.<span>  <\/span>The back side of these numbers indicates that this may not be the best choice for most students.<span>  <\/span>Of students who begin high school, fewer than 30% will have a baccalaureate degree twelve years later, while 20% will not have finished high school.<\/p>\n<p><p>\nDoing more work in mathematics and science is the work of the University and preparation for research careers is the focus of the Graduate Studies.<span>  <\/span>We tend to think myopically of what students need from K-12 education to be prepared for us.<span>  <\/span>I guess that the question that comes to my mind is what we are preparing these students to face upon their graduation, two or three years in their future.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was involved in another interesting conversation about what student should know. The conversation unfortunately centered on K-12 preparing students for college and\/or further work in mathematics and science. I say unfortunately because it is my opinion that by grade 12 all students should be fully prepare for a wide array of choices that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=77\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}