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If one is looking for clues regarding what universities think a college education should be about, one obvious place to look is their freshman summer reading programs
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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About one-third of all freshmen are enrolled each year in a remedial class. Yet current remedial methods are not very effective. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a mere 17 percent of four-year students enrolled in remedial reading and 27 percent of four-year students...
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 12:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Over the last decade, freshman reading programs at North Carolina college have been, variously, controversial, touchy-feely, and arguably too easy. Now, they seem to be dying off. Four North Carolina colleges have dropped their programs outright, and several more have scaled them down considerably.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 12:39 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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