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Title: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: Old Tider on November 03, 2013, 11:56:40 AM "Alabama is on the rise, LSU is stagnant at best."
http://theadvocate.com/home/7433217-125/rising-tide Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: McBaman on November 03, 2013, 12:32:04 PM Wow! Great article. Thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: Chechem on November 03, 2013, 01:01:56 PM Quote 26 percent [of Bama freshmen] earned a 4.0 grade-point-average as high school seniors. No matter how you sugarcoat that stat, it says "grade inflation" is rampant in high schools across America. Alabama has indeed improved The University during the past 10 years, but high-school education is spiraling downward, and continues to be a burden on that improvement. :wall: :wall: :wall: Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: pmull on November 03, 2013, 01:46:18 PM Quote 26 percent [of Bama freshmen] earned a 4.0 grade-point-average as high school seniors. No matter how you sugarcoat that stat, it says "grade inflation" is rampant in high schools across America. Alabama has indeed improved The University during the past 10 years, but high-school education is spiraling downward, and continues to be a burden on that improvement. :wall: :wall: :wall: All high school grades are not equal. Some students take honor classes while others take just enough to get by. Colleges look more at the ACT scores when awarding scholarships. The ACT test is not perfect but you not not make a 28 or higher by mistake. My wife teaches at Austin HS. They offer honor classes and advanced degrees. Those classes prepares kids for college if they want to do the work. They also offer the bare bone basics that just push some kids through the system and hope they can pass the state required graduation test. Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: XBAMA on November 03, 2013, 02:01:59 PM Quote 26 percent [of Bama freshmen] earned a 4.0 grade-point-average as high school seniors. No matter how you sugarcoat that stat, it says "grade inflation" is rampant in high schools across America. Alabama has indeed improved The University during the past 10 years, but high-school education is spiraling downward, and continues to be a burden on that improvement. :wall: :wall: :wall: the great thing about stats , is well ... they are stats :lol2: ain't stats wonderful !!!!! you can bend them shape them and use them as needed , to our advantage , to their disadvantage or both ! :clap: Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: Marshal Dillon on November 03, 2013, 02:13:44 PM Quote 26 percent [of Bama freshmen] earned a 4.0 grade-point-average as high school seniors. No matter how you sugarcoat that stat, it says "grade inflation" is rampant in high schools across America. Alabama has indeed improved The University during the past 10 years, but high-school education is spiraling downward, and continues to be a burden on that improvement. :wall: :wall: :wall: BINGO! I was at UAB and they told me that OVER 50% of incoming H.S. freshmen had to take introductory no credit algebra courses to prepare for 100 level math classes. Grade inflation through extra points are rampant in H.S. :facepalm: Title: Re: Baton Rouge paper says UA is better than LSU in football and education Post by: Chechem on November 03, 2013, 03:31:30 PM Quote 26 percent [of Bama freshmen] earned a 4.0 grade-point-average as high school seniors. No matter how you sugarcoat that stat, it says "grade inflation" is rampant in high schools across America. Alabama has indeed improved The University during the past 10 years, but high-school education is spiraling downward, and continues to be a burden on that improvement. :wall: :wall: :wall: All high school grades are not equal. Some students take honor classes while others take just enough to get by. Colleges look more at the ACT scores when awarding scholarships. The ACT test is not perfect but you not not make a 28 or higher by mistake. My wife teaches at Austin HS. They offer honor classes and advanced degrees. Those classes prepares kids for college if they want to do the work. They also offer the bare bone basics that just push some kids through the system and hope they can pass the state required graduation test. BUT... kids can take the ACT as many times as they want, and they take courses to prepare them for the test, which should invalidate the test. I've seen students make as low as 15 the first time and 26 the 5th time. The system is broken. |