Get The Government Out Of Our Schools. Every Time It Is Proven That Their Intrusion And Their Programs Fail, They Create Another One And Our Taxes Keep Going Up To Feed An Out Of Control Education Sector That Is All But Out Of The Hands Of Local Control, Parents And Most Teachers. Keep The Department Of Education Out Of Your Schools. Twelfth Grade Test Scores Not Improving May 14, 2014 American twelfth graders showed zero improvement in federal test scores between 2009 and 2013, reports the Wall Street Journal. Amidst concerns that the U.S. is failing to churn out college-ready graduates, results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed 38 percent of American twelfth graders scoring as proficient in reading and 26 percent as proficient in math, identical to the NAEP results from 2009. Too few students are achieving at a level to make our country competitive at an international level, said Cornelia Orr, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the NAEP. Orr said that schools set such low expectations for high school graduates that students are emerging from high school inadequately prepared for further schooling: Students get a mixed message -- students have a low bar to graduate from high school but its not a high enough bar to really pursue a career actively when they leave. NAEP scores are not the only tests indicating a lack of student improvement. 2013 SAT scores were at the same levels as in 2012. According to the College Board, which administers the SAT, only 43 percent of students were prepared for college-level work. Source: Caroline Porter, Federal Test Shows U.S. 12th-Graders Arent Improving in Reading or Math, Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2014. ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24418&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD https://facebook/FliptheSenate2014
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