California State University Chancellor Charles Reed, a commission member, said universities need to encourage high school seniors to take more rigorous courses. Nearly half of all seniors nationwide aren't even taking a science course, and about a third aren't taking any math, according to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. Reed inherits the resulting crop of underprepared students. You can't wait for it to end. Another distraction of senior year is work.
Students can earn credit, experience and wages through jobs.
They can also allow work to become a priority at the expense of their studies. And seniors can work more than younger students. She's put in as many as 35 hours a week at a local record store. That's more hours than she's in school. Hammers and carrots One of the principal challenges in motivating second-semester seniors is there's no hammer.