Only 26 percent were ready for college-level work in all four core areas.

"What we have found now, is that when they do, only one in four is ready for college-level work."

Some students need a little brushing up to be ready for college-level work.

He said city schools fail to make sure that high school graduates are prepared for college-level work.

Only 7 percent of 17-year-olds were prepared for college-level work in science, the report said.

Many young students, she thought, are ready to pursue college-level academic work some time before the usual system asks it of them.

As an instructor at a community college, I am doing my best to prepare students for college-level work.

At the time few public high schools turned out female graduates who were prepared to handle college-level work.

Otherwise, they would have to take them at the university, before starting their normal college-level work.

Of the 235 tested, 42 percent were considered ready for college-level work.