Posted on 09/14/2011 8:32:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
SAT reading scores for graduating high school seniors this year reached the lowest point in nearly four decades, reflecting a steady decline in performance in that subject on the college admissions test, the College Board reported Wednesday.
In the Washington area, one of the nation’s leading producers of college-bound students, educators were scrambling to understand double-digit drops in test scores in Montgomery and Prince William counties and elsewhere.
“Once you hit a certain mark, you want to maintain that,” said Frieda Lacey, deputy superintendent for Montgomery schools. “Don’t think the decline didn’t bother us. It really did.”
Nationally, the reading score for the Class of 2011, including public- and private-school students, was 497, down three points from the previous year and 33 points from 1972, the earliest year for which comparisons are possible. The average math score was 514, down one point from last year but up five from 1972.
The College Board attributed the lower scores to the growing diversity of test-takers, many of whom are less prepared for college-level work or are learning English as a second language.
“The good news is we have more students thinking about college than ever before,” said James Montoya, a College Board vice president. “Anytime you expand the number of students taking the SAT and expand it the way that we have — into communities that have not necessarily been part of the college-going culture — it’s not surprising to see a decline of a few points.”
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The bad news is, a lot of them have no business being there.
Is it that guy from Crawford, Texas’s fault?
The translation from PC-Speak is forbidden to be mentioned.
Lower SAT scores, women and minorities hardest hit
it's called PHONICS!!!
Reading?
You mean like a book with pages? That thing that makes me ACTIVELY engage my cerebrum?
Nah, I’d rather watch the movie via the tiny screen on my “cool” cell phone.
And what does SAT stand for? Is this some sort of no child left behind thing?
Y U spse ths is?
It is my contention is that it is harder for someone with Ebonics (corrupted English) as a first (thought) language to learn English than it is for someone with Spanish as their first language. More especially so if their culture views learning as "too white"...
Fonicks?
How’s that possible? Federal spending (and in most states- spending in general) on public schools has gone up drastically in that time period...
Back in another century, when I was in school, they were called, "Scholastic Achievement Tests"...
Tl;dr
Tl;dr
We have spent 10s of trillions on War on Poverty and Education in the last 50 years and they are worse than ever.
Let’s start with eliminating the Dept. of Ed.
33 points? Ouch.
It would be nice if the educrats actually posted the sample sizes so we can uncover whether the decline is statistically significant, but nah, that would involve actual research.
With a sample of 1 million students, you’d have an error of plus minus a point. If you multiplied the number of students by 10, you’d have plus minus .6 points.
To explain a decline of 33 points, you’d need sample differences of 10 million to 500 people taking the test.
The decline is real, no matter what the educrats would have you believe.
Ouch is right, remember this is the new dumbed down test so comparisons with test of 30 years ago a bogus.
No problem. Obama will just find another trillion dollars to “for the children”. He probably has it in his couch cushions.
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