ACT High School Test Scores Come In Lower Continued
How Does This Effect Students Applying to Colleges and Universities?
The ACT National test results as reported show a decline in ACT test scores. This table is also broken down by states so you can see your state's results
The web site explains that the ACT test goals are to test a student's knowledge of what has been taught in high school and what the probable success in college might be based on those scores. Look at your state's results for the detail of your state's results.
At a recent high school counselor's meeting in Florida, sponsored by ACT, several reasons were ...<< MORE >>
ACT Scores slightly lower, but more students ready for college level
What Happens When a High School Student Uses AP Classes?
We have no experience using the AP courses as they are used by the public school system. We do know that they were developed by and are sold to the school systems by College Board (the SAT people) to provide college credit to high school students. We also know that most public and private schools discourage students from earning college credit during high school in any manner that requires attendance off of their campus, e.g., community college dual enrollment. The main reason appears to be that the money from the state, county, and the Feds follows ...<< MORE >>
High School Planning for College Admission
Federal education activities don't solve any problems
Many of our politicians have it backwards these days. It's not a shame to lose an election. But it is a shame to serve a wrong idea—which is what Republicans, while in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, have been doing the past six years in education policy. Most recently, they have been seeking to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, the first and still the authoritative assertion of the modern bureaucratic state into higher learning.
A product of the Great Society, the Act provides direct aid from the federal government to colleges ...
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Free access to College Board's My College QuickStart ™
Access My College Quickstart free for college planning resources. Courtesy of College Board, the people who administer the college SAT ...<< MORE >>
Florida Virtual School is having an open house
Celebrate your connection to FLVS through Potter's Wheel Academy by joining FLVS for an Open House on Saturday, February 9, 2008.
For details and state wide locations click here
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Research: Dropouts flee area schools
Half the high schools in Florida — including several in the Orlando area — are "dropout factories," with thousands of students disappearing before their senior year, according to a new report. The complete article can be viewed at: View article Visit OrlandoSentinel.com at http://www.orlandosentinel.com
Cal Thomas
See the complete article at http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas091807.php3
Jewish World Review Sept. 18, 2007 / 6 Tishrei 5768
Cheating college students
By Cal Thomas
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "If you can read this, thank a teacher," says the bumper sticker on the car in front of me. But literacy is more than the ability to read a bumper sticker. It also includes the accumulation of basic knowledge combined with a way of thinking that allows an individual to lead a life that is personally productive and contributes to America's health and welfare.
For the second year in a row, America's
elite universities and colleges have failed to rise above a "D plus"
on tests of basic knowledge about civics and American history, maintains a
study commissioned by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's (ISI). In 2005,
ISI contracted with the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy (UConnDPP)
to administer tests of basic historical and civic knowledge to 14,000 students
at 50 top schools, including Yale, Harvard, Cornell, the University of Virginia,
Brown and Duke. The survey found that students "were no better off than
when they arrived in terms of acquiring the knowledge necessary for informed
engagement in a democratic republic and global economy." Since an
education at top colleges can cost as much as $40,000 a year, it would appear
that those paying the bill are being cheated.
