Summit number six is a negative attitude that many students are bringing to college with them. An increasing proportion carrying a chip on their shoulder and expect good grades without attending class or studying. Unprecedented numbers of students rarely come to class. They haven't read the material and have scant interest in learning it. Higher education needs what developmental educators know about assessment, learning styles, and techniques for motivating students to learn.
Public schools are likely to get worse before they get better.
Last September the Texas Education Agency released results of an Algebra 1 test administered in April of 1996 to 226,288 high school students. Developmental educators will continue to be needed. Finally, there is the mountain of a lack of professional respect or regard for NADE, CRLA, NTS, and other professional organizations similar to ours. David didn't make it. Not because there was no controversy in education.