Word: leveler
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...average scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the broadest standard of nationwide educational achievement, have been falling slowly but steadily since 1962. As measured on the SAT'S 200-to-800 scale, average verbal ability has fallen by 10% (to the 430 level), while average math skills have declined by 6% (to the 470s). Expectations that gifted s students, at least, would benefit from the infusion of money and technology into education also seem dashed. The number of high achievers on SAT tests (those scoring over 600) has been dropping. A report commissioned...
Rising violence. The mayhem wreaked by students on their own schools?and teachers?continues to grow. In 1975 the latest year for which totals have been compiled, secondary-school students attacked 63,000 teachers, pulled off 270 000 school burglaries and destroyed school property worth $200 million. The level of violence has continued to climb especially in the much-troubled big-city schools. In New York City, 132 teachers reported physical attacks in the first six weeks of this school year alone...
...wrongs. Conservative back to basics" forces rail that '60s innovations have left schools flaccid. They demand a return to a three-Rs curriculum and call for "minimal competency" testing, to make sure that high school students are not granted diplomas until they can read and write at some rudimentary level. More progressive forces disagree with this approach. "I'm all through with mandating, with forcing students...
...this year. Few kids prefer the nononsense, four-year algebra-geometry-algebra-trigonometry sequence to the simpler math courses. The attrition rate in foreign languages is so great that after the first year, students in higher courses are combined in one class. High-ability kids are not taking high-level courses," says Accounting Teacher James Whitty. The students ask: Why should we?" The school's course brochure advises college-preparatory students that they "should make certain they are getting the best preparation for college admission." But the head guidance counselor concedes that the five counselors do not believe in prodding...
...expecting too much. So the failure rate goes down, but the quality and quantity of work also go down Not surprisingly, SAT scores have fallen?57 points on verbal 64 in math, since 1962?approximating the national decline. More than half the present senior class were reading below grade level when tested in the ninth grade; Marshfield has since inaugurated a well-equipped "skills lab" with personal tutoring to help the slower readers...