Challenge 1: Strengthening both the quantity and quality of high school diplomas
Most students entering RI's community college are recent high school graduates from local public schools. The overwhelming majority -- 74% -- are not "college ready." Of that group, only 30% progress past remediation and into college credit-bearing courses.
Laudably, RI high schools are succeeding at keeping their students in school and seeing more of them through to graduation. But in 2012, of the in-coming freshmen at CCRI who were high school graduates -- those with diplomas in hand -- at least 46% of them needed remedial math coursework, and 58% needed remedial English.
Data source: RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner
