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While it is good that communication between the two education systems is happening, what are they doing to help? and is it working?

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So when these competencies are not learned, and students that are paying for an education are at a disadvantage, why is it that there is no big effort to teach them?

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When I volunteered at an elementary school for careers, I saw that three or four students in the classroom did not know how to speak the language the teacher was trying to help them understand.

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I completely agree with this. Whenever I find myself struggling in any given class, I make sure to get myself back on track.

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I believe this is one of the main causes for student's lack of college-readiness skills as it pushes already struggling students even more behind.

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" Students should enter with basic technological skills that include wordprocessing, e-mail use, and the fundamentals of Web-based research. All
students, therefore, should have regular access to computers. "

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"Language minority students comprise nearly 40% of all K-12 students in California"

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"Reading is generally not formally taught after a certain point in students’
K-12 education"

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"We applaud recent efforts towards collaboration and articulation between
high schools and colleges and urge that these efforts be continued and
expanded. "

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"These competencies should be learned in the content
areas in high school. It is, therefore, an institutional obligation to teach
them"

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"Students must assume a measure of responsibility for their own learning,
must discern crucial values of the academic community, must seek
assistance when they need it, and must advocate for their own learning in
diverse situations."

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I feel like the skills in technological use are being addressed already (at least in our areas), as many schools(even in elementary schools) are given products such as Ipads or Chromebooks to help their education.

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"More than 50% of their students fail to produce papers relatively free of
language errors, according to our faculty respondents."

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I think that technical errors should be the least concerned factor when discussing highschoolers language competency skills

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"In college, students may well be asked to complete complex writing tasks
across the disciplines with little instruction provided."

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Well it makes sense that people are having trouble entering college, students writing goes from "carefully guided" to "vague instructions" something they are not used to.

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"Students’ success in college has as much to do with their ability to find
information as to recall it."

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With this information I'm reading, the huge contrast between college and high school learning is very apparent. High school students education often focuses on memorization and college is against that way of learning and wants students to be a part of what they learn, not just a witness to it.

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"The California Language Arts Content Standards were designed by
appointees of the State Board of Education without officially recognized
participation by post-secondary faculty"

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So does this mean that high school boards creates the standards for college ready learning without input from the colleges themselves?

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"In much the same way, academically
successful students have learned that intellectual endurance in the form of
rethinking, rereading, and rewriting offers similar rewards."

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I do think endurance to be critical to learning, especially rethinking. With academic endurance, students put in an effort to truly understand whatever they're learning and leads to more care into their academics.

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"What do they expect of their students’ reading, writing, and critical
thinking?"

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One thing I find confusing about this question is the fact that such expectations of students should be changed after years of teaching and observing the skills freshman students do/don't have. This puts into to question the worth of these opinions

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"students need
greater exposure to and instruction in academic literacy than they receive
in English classes alone. This need calls for greater coordination of
literacy education among subject matter areas within high schools."

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"Self-advocacy is a valuable practice that emerges from the recognition that
education is a partnership."

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It can be said/expected that in the transition from high school to college the partnership in education between educator and educatee changes, to where the student is completely responsible their education.

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I see how this would be true. Those who are constantly preparing for something more difficult are those who's skills always improve.

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Since this was written in 2002, it makes sense that they brought up technology as a still needed skill. It's a good thing that with current widespread internet use, all freshman students are prepared at least for the technological aspect of college.

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"While many entering students are familiar with some technological
elements (notably e-mail and Web browsing), few demonstrate the crucial
ability to evaluate online resources critically."

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"True academic competence depends
upon a set of perceptions and behaviors acquired while
preparing for more advanced academic work. "

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I do not agree with this assessment. Structured, focused learning is what allows students to perfect the skills they need to be able to combine subjects later on in a useful way. In addition, different subjects all need their own spotlight.