Posted on 02/20/2008 9:53:56 AM PST by bs9021
College Board Announces Increased College Readiness
by: Bethany Stotts, February 20, 2008
On Thursday, February 14, the College Board released its annual Advanced Placement exam findings, announcing that the number of high-school test-takers gaining a score of 3 or more on AP tests has risen 3.5% nationwide over the last five years. The CB board celebrated these increases because rising scores not only indicate that more high-school graduates are prepared to succeed in college (15.2% nationwide), but because studies have shown that AP test-takers are more likely to understand key subjects such as math and physics, making America more competitive in the world economy.
The states showing most improvement in AP success rates since 2002 were:
1. Vermont
2. Maryland
3. Maine
4. Colorado
5. New Hampshire
The top ten states with the greatest number of graduating seniors scoring 3 or more on an AP exam included
1. New York (23.4%)
2. Maryland (22.4%)
3. Virginia (21.5%)
4. Florida (20.3%)
5. Massachusetts (20.3%)
6. Connecticut (20.1%)
7. Vermont (19.9%)
8. California (19.7%)
9. Utah (19.5%)
10. Colorado (19.2%)...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Or course, it doesn’t hurt that they have dumbed the test down by 10% over the last five years...
Thank you President Bush for pressing for educational reform.
It’s not a matter of changing the exams, it’s all the high $$ prep work that the kids do these days.
Kids have become wonderful test takers, but they are still subject to a system that doesn’t teach them to THINK.
(BTW, homeschooling does work.)
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