Liberal Education: SAT Reading Scores Drop to Lowest Point in 4 Decades

About the same amount of time we have had the U.S. Dept. of (no)Education crammed down our throats (or shoved elsewhere).

Liberal Education: SAT Reading Scores Drop to Lowest Point in 4 Decades Scotty Starnes | September 15, 2011 at 6:23 AM | Tags: liberal education, SAT, SAT scores | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5QH

Just more data proving the liberal education system is an absolute failure.

From WaPo:

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.

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.

Sounds like Liberals are blaming minorities on top of blaming the No Child Left Behind Law. Liberals don't like tests which show their failures.

The disappointing SAT scores come as schools have made major efforts to raise scores on state standardized tests under the 2002 No Child Left Behind law. Some critics of testing say the intense focus on state reading and math exams has taken its toll on higher-order thinking skills.

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