Educational Fraud

Educational Fraud | CNS News:
It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading, writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in college.
If such a student were admitted, his retention would require that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses.
The University of North Carolina made this accommodation; many athletes were enrolled in phantom courses in the department of African and African-American studies.
The discovery and resulting scandal are simply the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a much larger problem.
A UNC learning specialist hired to help athletes found that during the years 2004 to 2012, 60 percent of 183 members of the football and basketball teams read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels.
Eight to 10 percent read below a third-grade level.
These were black high-school graduates, and their high-school diplomas were clearly fraudulent.