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"2012 SAT Reading Scores Lowest Since 1972"
by Eyder Peralta
NPR's Claudio Sanchez brings us this bit of bad academic news: The class of
2012 scored the lowest average SAT reading score since 1972. A bit of good
news is that math scores were up.
Claudio filed this report for our Newscast unit:
"Writing, too, is down nine points since the SAT introduced a writing
section in 2006. The average score in math was 514 out of 800, five points
higher than it was 40 years ago.
"Just under 1.7 million high school seniors took the test. Nearly half were
racial or ethnic minorities. A fourth did not grow up speaking English at
home. Asians outscored White, Black and Latinos. But overall, according to
the College Board which commissions the SAT's, 6 in ten test takers are not
prepared for college level work. Experts say this is a clear indication that
academically, high schools are just not rigorous enough."
In a press release, College Board President Gaston Caperton said these
scores should be a "call to action to expand access to rigor for more
students."
"Our nation's future depends on the strength of our education system. When
less than half of kids who want to go to college are prepared to do so, that
system is failing," he said.
And, as we've reported, this kind of news just keeps coming. In Sept. 2011,
we reported that the reading scores were already in bad shape then. And,
last month, we reported that according to the ACT , just "25 percent of high
schoolers who took the test are college ready. |
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