
For the unprepared, college is a ripoff
Colleges are ripping off poorly prepared students, charges Walter Williams, a George Mason economics professor, in the Daily Signal. “Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math,” on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Williams points out. “Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math.” Yet most of the