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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
How Does It Feel to be 46th?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The New SAT was kind to Georgia, boosting the state’s ranking to #46, when last year we were tied for last with South Carolina. The states that are worse overall than Georgia this year: Pennsylvania, Florida, South Carolina and Hawaii.
Georgia’s 487 on the new writing test made the difference. Georgia is still last in math with an average of 496. Georgia’s total is 1,477 out of 2,400. The national average is 1,518.
Please note that 70 percent of Georgia kids take the SAT, even though only about half the kids go onto college. Where they find that motivation to get to an SAT testing site on a Saturday morning and endure a 3-plus hour exam, I don’t know. But that’s the situation, and some say it’s a good thing.
In many states, such as Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, students overwhelmingly take the rival ACT. So these comparisons are not valid or fair, though they do provide useful and interesting information.
I’ll post more details later, and check out ajc.com for school-by-school results as they roll in.
How do you feel about Georgia’s ranking?
