Lowering the Bar

(Fox News) - New minimum standards for incoming college freshman at Colorado's public universities are scheduled to go into effect next year, mandating four years of high school English, along with three years of math and science. But The Denver Post reports that some 3,000 freshmen would fail to meet those standards had they been in effect this fall.

So the state is now backing off: Postponing the new guidelines for a full year.

The Post reports that at one college in Denver, half the incoming freshmen would not qualify under the new rules. And it gets worse: A second set of upgrades would require four years of math and one year of a foreign language. That is set to take effect three years from now.