Currently, my personal opinion is that college isn't right for everyone. BUT as a teacher, it is not my place to be the college gatekeeper. Everyone should have the opportunity to pursue a college degree.
Corey Bower, blogger at Thoughts on Education Policy, posted this piece in 2010 entitled "___________ Shouldn't Attend College" in response to a New York Times article arguing for a social-efficiency-based perspective on who should go to college and whether college is economically worthwhile for all students. Both pieces, along with Bower's Education Roundtable discussion on the topic raise issues of equity, access, and value that are worth considering as college-readiness becomes the end goal of the public K-12 system.
Should all students attend college? If not, who shouldn't? And where does a "college-ready" education leave them?
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