We spend over $12,000 per student per year, and this is the outcome?
BOISE – Idaho students made no significant improvements in math and reading scores, according to the latest Nation’s Report Card released Tuesday.
Fourth-graders showed no improvements in math or reading, while eighth-graders’ scores stayed flat in math but slightly improved in reading.
The results come from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The exams, given to a cross-section of students nationwide every two years, are considered one of the most reliable ways of comparing academic performance across the state. The test has been administered since 1992.
Roughly 40 percent of Idaho’s fourth-grade students are proficient in math and reading. For eighth-grade students, 35 percent are proficient in math and 39 percent are proficient in reading.
And the liberals want 100% of high school graduates to attend college and to remove the SAT/ACT college entrance exam requirement and just let high school grades get these kids into college. And they wonder why the dropout rate is so high…
Read more over at the Spokesman Review.