Interesting little tidbit

Washington state now has the capability of tracking a kids educational progress from Pre-K to College.  One of the statistics that came out:

The report also shows that about 22 percent of the Seattle graduates who went to college had to take remedial math classes — pre-college math — when they got there. About half that many had to take pre-college courses in English.

Statewide, about 63 percent of all 2009 high-school graduates enrolled in college. About a quarter of those 39,537 young people needed to take remedial courses in math, and 13 percent weren't ready for college English.

This is considerably better than you would be led to believe if you follow the education blogs.  Now of course the Seattle School District has a vested interest in making it appear that they are doing a good job educating kids but these numbers would appear to be of the type that are easily verifiable so unless they are just counting on everyone being to lazy to double check I don’t see a plus to any deception.  My point here is that although 22% needing remedial math is still too high it is better than I had been led to believe and gives me some hope that maybe our kids won’t all be growing up to be illiterate dumbasses.