"Reports: Students graduate unprepared" (Huntsville Item, 11/10/08)

Less than one-third of all Texas high school students graduate prepared for college, and those numbers get even lower for minority students, according to two studies by a team of Sam Houston State University educational leadership and counseling department professors.

Colleges Spend Billions on Remedial Classes to Prep Freshmen

Millions of students are arriving on college campuses unprepared for the work they have ahead of them. See the report Diploma to Nowhere by Strong American Schools.  USA Today, September 16, 2008