Arizona’s SAT Scores Declined again in 2009. Sure, they’re trying to say it isn’t so bad – Arizona is still above the national average… a more diverse group than ever took the test this year, etc. Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Education, Tom Horne had this take on the scores:
“We’re not where we want to be at the end, but we’re doing better than the country as a whole,” he said.
Sugar coat it if you want – the fact still remains that only 26% of the students were deemed ready for college level material. Of course all, or nearly all, of these students passed the AIMS test with flying colors I’m sure. For those of you not from Arizona, the AIMS test is the “high stakes” test that all high school students must pass before they can graduate. Surprisingly only a handful of kids don’t pass, and yes, I do mean a handful. Sure, they can’t add, subtract, write coherent sentence in anything but “text-speak,” or name the capital of England… but they passed their AIMS test.
