Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of the AzMERIT test in 2017, meaning they scored neither proficient nor highly proficient. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 65 percent of fourth-graders nationwide…
State test scores highlight educational inequality in rural areas with high percentages of poor students. On the 2016-17 AzMERIT test, 39 percent of Arizona students passed the English section of the test. Across the state, students with an economic disadvantage (qualifying for free or reduced lunch) tested nearly 10 percent lower on the AzMERIT test,…
Los estudiantes de la preparatoria Tombstone obtienen un puntaje más elevado en las pruebas estandarizadas de matemáticas a comparación con la mayoría del resto de los estudiantes arizonenses. Eso no necesariamente son buenas noticias ya que en general, todos los estudiantes arizonenses obtienen una puntuación por debajo de la norma nacional. La cifra demuestra que…
Tombstone High School students score higher at standardized math testing than most Arizona students. That is not necessarily good news. All Arizona students score below the national norm.A year ago the numbers suggest that Arizona students scored better than the national norm. The state used the AIMS test to measure and it showed seven out…
