As I prepare my high school students to enter into being full-time college students in their junior year, the discussion from us as educators is, “How do we know our students are ready?” Our country’s Industrial Revolution, in-and- out, school design marks readiness as a passage of time, one that comes with the changing of the seasons and not of mastery of skills and cognitive thought (have you heard of social promotion?).
If the passage of 12th grade is not what defines college readiness- then what does?
