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If you want to make your faculty and administration see the reality, I
suggest giving my diagnostic test to a sample of your 12th graders. The
first half of the test contains questions which should be easily
solvable by a competent 8th grader, the second half contains algebraic
questions all but 3 of which should be answerable by anyone who has
passed first year algebra, the remaining 3 questions involve: basic
concept of a logarithm, concept of a function and graph of a function.
If you'd like to receive a copy of the report on this test (It has been
given now at about 20 institutions [high school and college] and to well
over 1000 students), please let me know, and let me know if you have
Microsoft WORD. The test has been a major eye-opener everywhere it has
been given. Of course, the reality rarely prompts any appropriate
action.