Rocky Mountain Roundtable: 2008 Education Roundtable
August 25th, 2008
Roundtable Focus:
American 15-year-olds are significantly below average in math and science. Out of 30 countries participating in the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment, America’s 15-year-olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science. Meanwhile, more than 1.2 million students drop out of school every year. That’s more than 6,000 students every school day and one student every 26 seconds. At the post-secondary level, more than one in three college freshmen enroll in at least one remedial course to catch up on skills they should have learned in high school. This figure rises to 42 percent in the nation’s community colleges. Clearly, American schools must make a change.
Participants:
Moderated by Tom Toch (photo). Sen. Bingaman, Shirley Bloomfield, Eli Broad, Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Mike Feinberg, Chris Gabrieli, Walter Isaacson, Paula Prahl, Gov. Roy Romer, John Schnur, John Wilson
This podcast was originally recorded on August 25, 2008.