MATH SAT Scores Reach 36-Year High

AP ^ | 8-26-03

[dogbyte12]

The College Board, which owns the nation's most popular college entrance exam, said Tuesday that this year's high school graduates had an average cumulative score of 1,026 points on the SAT, up six points from 2002. Both the average math (519) and verbal (507) scores were up three points from last year.

[KCmark]

Thanks. Check at the Rush site; how clever. I feel ... DOH! ;-)

[ladylib]

Today, it's all about choice:

http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news3_080903aug09,0,5770281.story?coll=va-news

But you have to pay through the nose for it. You have to pay in property taxes for the public school system (which you might not be happy with) and for private school tuition should you wish to send your child to private school.

People who homeschool or send their kids to private school should get some sort of break IMHO.

My mother doesn't have anyone is the public school system anymore. She pays $10,000 a year in property taxes, $5,000 of which goes to the local public schools. That $5,000 could pay for the tuition of about 1 1/2 students in the Catholic elementary around the corner from her, which graduates students who go to the best prep schools in the tri-state area. Cost to educate a student in her town in the public middle school: about $10,000 per year and going higher even as I speak.

[Libertarian4Bush]

BULLSHIT. This is due to re-centering.

[goodseedhomeschool (returned)]

Proof is in the pudding. :)
Way to go homeschoolers.

[visualops]

$10,000 a year in property taxes

What the heck does she own?

[PatrioticAmerican]

Don't celebrate just yet. The SAT has been dumbed down year after year. The NEA is all for it so they can tell Congress what a good job they do.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Congrats Bush Administration!"

Yeah? What'd they do?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"The higher math scores are probably legitimate. After all, math is math"

Yeah, 2+2 is still 4 but if that is all they ask anymore, it isn't much to brag about.

[ladylib]

A house that's worth about $400,000.

We have upscale towns (million dollar houses) with no public school systems (private schools), no sewer taxes, private garbage haulers, etc., who pay less, believe it or not.

[LS]

Well, I guess if I were dictator, everyone (and I mean everyone, including childless couples) would pay a very bare minimum for a public school that always had one other public school competitor (vouchers), then parents would shoulder 90% of the burden of their kids even in the public schools. I send my kid to a private school, yet I have to pay for the public school's football team, even when we can't afford air conditioning in our gym?

But I'm enough of a realist to know that some kids simply would not go to a school if there were no public schools at all.

[visualops]

It's just amazing to me anyone anywhere pays over 2% of assessed value in property taxes.
I find that very hard to swallow.

[ladyjane]

I stand corrected by BohDaThone. Thirty years ago was 1973. I probably should have said 40 to 50 years ago. Time flies! but then I am so young I couldn't have been around then. I've heard the elders speak of those times!