Florida’s new legislation lets students self-select in or out of developmental-level classes. At Miami-Dade, 60% of students who placed into developmental-level courses elected to enroll in college-level classes.
This creates a predicament for instructors. As one notes, “A lot of discussion among English faculty is how to keep standards high…Students ask me what a paragraph is now. What’s next? Maybe, what’s a sentence?” Writing paragraphs is not college-level work, but what happens if students aren’t required to take needed developmental coursework while we are simultaneously being pushed to increase completion rates?
It’s a little hard to see how standards could remain the same…
Wider than the Sky 