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Examiner Enterprise reports.

Too many Oklahoma graduates not prepared for college

Oklahoma’s common education policies continue to bear fruit at the university level — rotten fruit.

Thousands of Oklahoma students graduate high school each year. They’ve passed end-of-instruction tests in math, science, English and social students, and have A’s and B’s in all their classes. They receive a diploma that certifies they meet Oklahoma’s “College Preparatory/Work Ready Curriculum Standards,” and supposedly are ready for college.

However, they aren’t ready. In 2013, nearly 40 percent of incoming freshmen at Oklahoma colleges and universities needed to pass a remedial course before taking classes in their major.

Oklahoma’s two largest school districts — Oklahoma City Public Schools and Tulsa Public School — are the darkest examples of an education gone bad. In Tulsa Public Schools, 58 percent of the 646 students entering college had to take remedial classes in 2013 In Oklahoma City Public Schools, 58 percent of the 792 students going to college took remedial classes.