California high-schoolers not ready for college-level work

Hoo-boy - this is depressing. I doubt whether the other states are doing any better.

From an article in the Sacramento Bee:

Nearly six months after giving the first statewide exam to identify students who aren't prepared for university-level course work, California State University officials found that nearly 80 percent of high school juniors they tested are not ready for college English.

The same test - called the Early Assessment Program - dealt better results in math, with 45 percent of participating juniors posting scores too low to prove they are ready for college-level math.