{"id":15672,"date":"2012-12-19T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2012-12-19T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:59:46","slug":"join-us-for-an-online-chat-at-4pm-how-florida-schools-are-failing-to-prepare-students-for-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/19\/join-us-for-an-online-chat-at-4pm-how-florida-schools-are-failing-to-prepare-students-for-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us For An Online Chat at 4pm: How Florida Schools Are Failing To Prepare Students For College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/19\/join-us-for-an-online-chat-at-4pm-how-florida-schools-are-failing-to-prepare-students-for-college\/npredchat-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15673\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15673\" title=\"NPRedchat\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/NPRedchat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Join us Wednesday, December 19 at 4pm <a href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/talk-us-online-chat-1219-4pm-about-how-florida-fails-prepare-students-college\">on this site<\/a> to chat online with reporters Sarah Gonzalez of NPR&#8217;s StateImpact Florida and McNelly Torres of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting about the growing need for remedial education among Florida&#8217;s high school graduates and older students.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk about how we got here and what can be done to fix it. You can join via Twitter by using the hashtag #NPRedchat or go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/talk-us-online-chat-1219-4pm-about-how-florida-fails-prepare-students-college\">WLRN website<\/a>\u00a0and type your comment or question.<\/p>\n<p>One in two Florida students in 2010-2011 failed at least one section of the college placement test. Those students then had to take &#8211; and pay for &#8211; a remedial course in reading, writing and\/or math.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already received comments and observations from teachers, students and parents from the Public Insight Network.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you think. What should be the purpose of high school? Why are high school students graduating unprepared?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s today at 4pm with education reporters Sarah Gonzalez and McNelly Torres. Tweet us #NPRedchat or type your comment\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/talk-us-online-chat-1219-4pm-about-how-florida-fails-prepare-students-college\">right on this page<\/a>. You can login with your Facebook or Twitter account or just type your name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us Wednesday, December 19 at 4pm on this site to chat online with reporters Sarah Gonzalez of NPR&#8217;s StateImpact Florida and McNelly Torres of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting about the growing need for remedial education among Florida&#8217;s high school graduates and older students. We&#8217;ll talk about how we got here and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15684,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions\/15684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}