Nothing more pointedly and poignantly describes the state of colleges in the United States today than the comment by Jen Lara in the March 16th issue of Community College Week wherein she writes "[o]ur job is to teach the students we have.  Not the ones we would like to have.  Not the one[s] we used to have.  Those we have right now… and to embrace a growth mindset and change and disrupt the status quo."    Most teachers have accepted the need to dumb-down material, accept a lackluster student body and make believe that the diploma conferred upon most of the graduates is a meaningful document. And thus, the expected result of 40+ years of open enrollment, affirmative action and general lowering of academic standards has colleges and universities making changes to their "assessment processes for under-prepared students."  It is why remedial classes burgeon because the reading level of some incoming college students hovers...(Read Full Article)