Oklahoman who responded to an online question provided some interesting comments about obstacles they encountered in pursuit of college degrees and personal experiences with college remediation
* Oklahoma graduation and retention rates among lowest ...
10/04/2009 Oklahoma colleges and universities have the worst freshman retention rate and ninth worst six-year graduation rate in the nation. More than a third of the ...
* Do Oklahoma's college graduation rates compare?
10/04/2009 The University of Oklahoma competes toe-to-toe with the University of Texas on the football field, but when it comes to university-wide graduation rates, ...
* Oklahoma high school students not quite prepared for ...
10/04/2009 Where Oklahoma awaits high school students appears to make a difference in how it is Likely they will need to take remedial courses in college. That's ...
* Small colleges suffer from grad rates lowest in ...
10/04/2009 Graduation rates at Oklahoma's regional colleges are embarrassingly low. Outside of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, there ...
Here is what some of them had to say:
"I was on the 10-year plan. I had gone to school two years full time, but still had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. I dropped out and went to work full time, then started back at night school at six hours a semester for the next 7 ½ years. My use paid 75 percent of tuition as I worked full time and went to school. It was a great deal. "- Dave Koeneke, executive director of the Oklahoma Safety Council
"Yes, I took a remedial course in college algebra. I struggled in math in high school and did not have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebra course. The remedial course gave me a lot of confidence so that when I took the for-credit algebra course it was fairly easy and I got a 'B' of which I remain proud today "- Jim Stafford, communications specialist for i2e
"I had struggled in high school with algebra, so when I went back to college in North Carolina, I had to take a remedial algebra class. Thank the Lord because I Had the most amazing professor who ACTUALLY wanted me to learn and understand algebra .... My instructor in high school Approached it like you should know this and if you do not, then you are stupid! So I aced that class as well as the Business Math that followed, and now use algebra intermittently at work and in my personal life. I was also able to tutor my two daughters through their algebra classes during high school
* Oklahoma graduation and retention rates among lowest ...
10/04/2009 Oklahoma colleges and universities have the worst freshman retention rate and ninth worst six-year graduation rate in the nation. More than a third of the ...
* Do Oklahoma's college graduation rates compare?
10/04/2009 The University of Oklahoma competes toe-to-toe with the University of Texas on the football field, but when it comes to university-wide graduation rates, ...
* Oklahoma high school students not quite prepared for ...
10/04/2009 Where Oklahoma awaits high school students appears to make a difference in how it is Likely they will need to take remedial courses in college. That's ...
* Small colleges suffer from grad rates lowest in ...
10/04/2009 Graduation rates at Oklahoma's regional colleges are embarrassingly low. Outside of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, there ...
Here is what some of them had to say:
"I was on the 10-year plan. I had gone to school two years full time, but still had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. I dropped out and went to work full time, then started back at night school at six hours a semester for the next 7 ½ years. My use paid 75 percent of tuition as I worked full time and went to school. It was a great deal. "- Dave Koeneke, executive director of the Oklahoma Safety Council
"Yes, I took a remedial course in college algebra. I struggled in math in high school and did not have confidence to plunge in with a for-credit algebra course. The remedial course gave me a lot of confidence so that when I took the for-credit algebra course it was fairly easy and I got a 'B' of which I remain proud today "- Jim Stafford, communications specialist for i2e
"I had struggled in high school with algebra, so when I went back to college in North Carolina, I had to take a remedial algebra class. Thank the Lord because I Had the most amazing professor who ACTUALLY wanted me to learn and understand algebra .... My instructor in high school Approached it like you should know this and if you do not, then you are stupid! So I aced that class as well as the Business Math that followed, and now use algebra intermittently at work and in my personal life. I was also able to tutor my two daughters through their algebra classes during high school
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