ACT Report: 24 Percent of Graduates College Ready
A report released Tuesday by a nonprofit research and assessment organization indicates that only about a quarter of Texas high school graduates are prepared for college.
The Condition of College and Career Readiness Report for Texas is based on ACT scores, which students typically take so they can use the test to apply for college. Of the 39 percent of graduating seniors who took the ACT, 24 percent of the Class of 2012 met all four benchmarks in English, reading, mathematics and science. That percentage has been stagnant since 2010, and is just below the national average of 25 percent ...
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Candice Feldt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
yikes
Cara Mendelsohn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Imagine the percent if all students took the ACT...
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And the rest are the children of TeaTards who want to cut funding to education.
Judy Burns via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Headline is misleading-it's not a fourth of the graduates; it's a fourth of those who took the test.
Leonard Isaacs
But we can block the right tackle and run sweep-right for a touchdown on our way to making a great score on the med school admission test ! Yea, right !
Janet Morrison
There's a comment in the article: "Texas data shows students struggled most in science." I don't see the figures for that science data. Can you either provide the statistics for that or direct me to where I can get the statistics?