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Ridgewood NJ, 42% of 2022 graduating seniors nationally who took the ACT met ZERO of the four college readiness benchmarks ( English, reading, science and math). Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
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The graduating class of 2022 endured the effects of a global pandemic spanning across the three years of their education: sophomore, junior, and senior years. ACT puts forth this data, in addition to our extensive COVID-19 related research, to ensure that school systems and states can make informed decisions that will improve outcomes for their students and families. ACT uses a holistic view and our consistent and reliable historical information to provide greater context and visibility as educators make critical decisions for future cohorts of students.
The class of 2022’s average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of 36, marking the first time since 1991 that the average score was below 20. What’s more, an increasing number of high school students failed to meet any of the subject-area benchmarks set by the ACT — showing a decline in preparedness for college-level coursework.
“Academic preparedness is where we are seeing the decline,” said Rose Babington, senior director for state partnerships for the ACT. “Every time we see ACT test scores, we are talking about skills and standards, and the prediction of students to be successful and to know the really important information to succeed and persist through their first year of college courses.”
ACT scores have declined steadily in recent years. Still, “the magnitude of the declines this year is particularly alarming,” ACT CEO Janet Godwin said in a statement. “We see rapidly growing numbers of seniors leaving high school without meeting college-readiness benchmarks in any of the subjects we measure.”
heres something for the libtards to ponder.
thanks to the left leaning NJ supreme court, we have ‘abbot’ school districts.
the ‘abbot decision’ requires $$$$$$ as the measure of equality, which guarantees students in shit-hole poorly run democrat cities such as paterson, camden and newark the same amount ‘spent per student’ as those in ‘non-shithole’ districts such as the suburbs.
The money is drained from the state treasury and sent to these shit-hole districts. They piss it away on teachers salaries and taj-mahal buildings…
so how are the kids doing? are they learning well? getting high test scores?
You can’t measure success with tests… why? BECAUSE in the SHIT-HOLE districts students graduate BASED UPON ATTENDANCE. They do not learn, they do not take tests. They sit there doing NOTHING. The teachers union is SILENT because they get their big salary and fat juicy pensions, without having to grade tests. Students are promoted due to being ‘AGE APPROPRIATE”… who wants a stupid 17 year old who can’t read to remain in the third grade (which IS appropriate based on skill level)
All this so the political hacks in NJ can brag ‘we have such a high graduation rate’ compared to XXX states.
Basically a diploma from these districts is about as useful as toilet paper.
“Basically a diploma from these districts is about as useful as toilet paper.”
well……………………………
If it’s printed on the grade of paper that the level of funding would imply, I doubt that it would work very well…………………