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| 1 | Understanding the system | 3 |
| 2 | What high school students know about college readiness | 17 |
| 3 | The old and new criteria for college success | 33 |
| 4 | Current strategies to increase college readiness | 49 |
| 5 | What does a high school that prepares its students for college success look like? | 73 |
| 6 | Designing high schools for intellectual coherence | 101 |
| 7 | Experiencing success in the first year of college | 113 |
| 8 | What really happens in the first year of college | 133 |
| 9 | What we must do to create a system that prepares students for college success | 153 |
| 10 | Standards for success | 171 |
| 11 | English knowledge and skills | 175 |
| 12 | Mathematics knowledge and skills | 189 |
| 13 | Natural sciences knowledge and skills | 201 |
| 14 | Social sciences knowledge and skills | 217 |
| 15 | Second languages knowledge and skills | 229 |
| 16 | Arts knowledge and skills | 235 |
| 17 | University work samples | 247 |
| App. A | Checklist for college readiness | 301 |
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Billy Mcconnaughey
reviewed College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready on February 07, 2013
College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready
Although this book provided statistical date on how to achieve in college, I will not consider this to be insightful. The book mainly informed people on what to expect in college but did not really give them any solutions on why should they attend. When I read the book title, I expected to read a persuasive book on the benefits of college and the excuses people make on why they are not going. Instead I got a bunch of graphs, data and useless information on comparing high school academics to college. The author kept insisting that his purpose was not to convince people to go to college but I can't tell. Each chapter demonstrated his reasons for writing this book and it got really boring fast.
I am a college student and find most of this information to be outdated. This is not to say that the book did not have any highlights. Quite the contrary, the detailed information is a reason alone why some may consider this a good book. On the other hand, this is not what I will consider a book to read for people that are transiting from high school to college. It did not provide me with enough clarity and examples to want to succeed in college. Most passages sounded rehearsed and not original at all.
The biggest flaw with this book is that it was not persuasive to me. If I was a high school student reading this book, I would not learn how to succeed in college but merely survive. Test taking skills, Math, Grammar skills and research is not what makes college different from high school. It is true that most of them are advanced classes and require that know how to do extensive assignments but it is hardly as difficult as the book suggests.
Needless to say, I was very disappointed in this book and regretted that I checked this out. Due to the content, it was not horrible by any means but it was too informative and not enough persuasion. It did not motivate me to succeed or anything, just have me compare high school to college performance.
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