"A new, wide-ranging report on the status of Massachusetts public higher education shows a system in which droves of students enroll in college, but many ultimately find themselves underprepared for college-level work and drop out. This is not unexpected and reinforces the fact that students are accepted to colleges that are not qualified due to affirmative action and diversity. Diversity always means lower quality. This report proves that standardized testing is the important criteria for college entrance and diversity is a hoax. Colleges should not complain about the cost of remedial efforts since they are the ones that enrolled these students.

The Emperor has no clothes, but has not had any for a good fifty years.  A good test to see if secondary ed. is actually doing what everyone seems to assume it is doing is to ask a kid to speak to you for a minute in the second language he just spent four years learning...if he can't say anything, then there is your answer.  Failed foreign language classes are easy to sniff out, but there is no reason to believe that the rest of the curriculum is any more successful.

I work in a business where I just cannot believe the level of education attained by applicants for employment. THESE KIDS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL! Yet, many of them have DEGREES in everything from law enforcement to "computer technology". What a scam, the "colleges" take their money (mostly subsidized by you and me), get an "atta boy" slap on the back from their high school teachers and then waste away another one to three years of their youth on a mirage. After that they are totally disillusioned with their place in society and they go back to mom's basement and start collecting welfare benefits. Pretty soon they are not so young anymore and it's over. Go Obama!