State Education Department Releases Test Scores
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state Education Department released test
results this morning that show 45 percent of this years high
school juniors scored at or above grade level in literacy on
benchmark tests.
That figure is more than double the percentage from just three
years ago. Results from end-of-course Algebra One and geometry
exams showed lower increases, although more than half performed
proficiently in Algebra One exams this spring.
Students completing the Eleventh grade took the literacy exam in
April. The percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency
was 41 percent last year and just 22 percent in 2001.
The math exams were given and the end of the first semester in
January and again at the end of the school year, whenever students
completed the course work.
