State Tests Dumbed Down And 23% Of H.S. Students Fail Military Entrance Exam

State Tests Dumbed Down to Create a False Impression of NCLB Success

The median cut score for grade 8 reading is 36, but a surprising number of schools have standards that are far, far below that. The worst offenders are Colorado, Wisconsin, Delaware and Ohio. The only state with standards well above the median is South Carolina.

There is just as much variation between math proficiency standards as there is between reading proficiency standards for grade 8. Illinois, Wisconsin, and Colorado have the lowest cut scores; Washington, Montana, and South Carolina have the highest.
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23% Of H.S. Students Fail Military Entrance Exam
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Lord, the Army test was easy when I took it , so it must really be dumbed down now.
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"Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the military fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions."