Contesting the Space between High School and College in the Era of Dual-Enrollment.

Abstract

NCTE and the Problem of'College Readiness The space between high schools and colleges has been a site of contention for at least a century. Indeed, as Erika Lindemann detailed in the February 2011 issue of College Composition and Communication, NCTE began in 1911 as a protest against the heavy hand of elite colleges determined to impose uniform lists of reading on high school English curricula. These elite colleges viewed high schools as purely preparatory for postsecondary advancement. Entrance examinations, initiated by universities and based on the uniform lists, were seen , . | I . by some as an attempt by colleges to control the content A century later,the terrain F J . 5 , , . T , ^ ol high school curriculum (Applebee 51). In the East, between high school and college t ^ . .. , , 3 3 particularly, the examinations were viewed as heavy has again become contested. Once handed_indeed> in Fred Newton Scott>s vie —even