Joy L. De Guzman
BSBA Human Resources Dev. Mngt.
MKBA 112
T,F 7:30 – 9:00 am * Is there a need to have a k-12 program?
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Working Together to Improve Student Achievement * The following article outlines the importance for K-12 teachers to work with faculty on the university level in order to make more clear the demands and expectations for today's students. Haycock supports the notion that standards-based assessment is crucial to ensure that secondary school teachers are adequately preparing their students for their college courses, and that college faculty know what to expect from their incoming students. An active partnership between the K-12 teachers and college faculty promotes the continuity of quality experience on each step of a student's education. * Across the country, K-12 educators are engaged in a serious effort aimed at ensuring that all high school students can read, write, compute, and reason at high levels. Their success at this task would be a dream come true for faculty members in the nation's colleges and universities, who have been complaining for years about their entering freshmen's low skill levels and about the high cost of remediation. * Despite its obvious stake in the K-12 effort though, higher education has provided shockingly little support. Indeed, it sometimes seems as though "higher" educators have grown so accustomed to receiving underprepared students from "lower" educators that they literally can't imagine an alternative scenario — or at least can't imagine it clearly enough to actually roll up their sleeves and help create one. * Our two systems of education, it turns out, are so intertwined that we simply cannot achieve big changes in one without * The road to deeper understanding of the many connections between higher education and K-12 is littered with