Only about 45% of elementary students passed state reading exams last year, and 33% passed the math test.
The center console screen states one thing, the instant economy gauge states another and, the simple math division test basically (logically) states the CORRECT gas mileage, which is not off by a few miles per gallon but, by many.
Students there have achieved some of the highest test scores in the world in math and science.
The latest test scores show Chinese math students in Shanghai far ahead of Americans.
FORBES: China And India Eat Our Lunch Because They're Smart And Ambitious
Only a third of the applicants pass the harsh written exams, which test math, logic and analytic reasoning.
But by 2012, city children in third and fourth-grades had narrowed the test-score gap on math with their peers throughout the state but fell a few points short of pulling even.
Overall, 38 percent of Hispanic fourth-grade students were identified as English learners, as well as 20 percent of Hispanic eighth-grade students, according to the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress math test.
The recent improvement, he speculates, may be the welcome byproduct of a upturn in math and reading skills, as measured by test scores, among minorities in the years before the students reach ninth grade.
Page quickly enlisted the help of math prodigy Sergey Brin to further test his theory.
The law requires schools to test students for math and reading annually in third through eighth grades and once in high school.
States receiving waivers still must test the covered students annually in math and reading, but they can design their own policies to help low-scoring campuses and won't have to subject them to closings or staff firings.
Thus, it is possible that some students made progress on lower-level math skills that were not detected by the state test.
The act requires states to test students in reading and math every year, and penalizes schools if they don't meet standards.
In one such experiment, subjects were able to cheat on a math test. (They were given access to the answers.) As expected, there was score inflation among those able to cheat.
In terms of college readiness, 28% of those who took the test did not meet any of the four ACT readiness benchmarks in English, math, reading and science.
FORBES: High School Grads Even Less Prepared But At Least Doing Better In Math And Science
Thanks to the actions of this Congress last year, we will soon have for the very first time a voluntary national test based on national standards in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
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