Bror’s Blog dives into another ACT report. In this one they determine that the level of academic skill required to be successful in college is just about the same as that necessary to enter the job market. For example, the level of math required for college is the same as that for work readiness. The ACT report brief is here.

What does this mean? Well, it seems that the conventional practice of separating educational tracks based on college ambitions is no longer applicable in today’s economy. So, how does a parent ensure that a child is ready? Remember a previous post discussed how 3/4 of college prep students weren’t ‘prepped.’ That means that those young adults aren’t ready to enter the job market either. It seems that using objective academic standards to assess skill level is the direction to head. The challenge for us is doing this well at home.

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