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...when the results began to filter out last week, they proved truly alarming. In Duval County, which includes Jacksonville, 45% of the juniors failed the math section and 14% could not handle the reading and grammar part. Only 6% of the juniors at Jacksonville's overwhelmingly black Stanton High School passed the math section...
...high school juniors sat down to take a new exam: a Functional Literacy Test ordered by the state legislature to determine whether, as critics had charged, state schools had been graduating as many as 10,000 virtually illiterate seniors each year. The three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
...rate exceeds 12%, I'll be questioned," he says. "Someone would likely ask me if I weren't 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...
Almost half of all students leave school at age 16, after studying as many as a dozen subjects, including a foreign language. Meanwhile, grammar school students continue a rigorous university-oriented curriculum, including English, French, math and science. The elite private schools, even more demanding, routinely push students through 13 subjects...
...than the U.S. version. Primary school ends at age eleven or twelve, when students enter a college d'en-seignement secondaire-roughly equivalent to a junior high school. During the first year, they shoulder a set 27-hour-per-week load: five hours of French, three each of math, a foreign language, history, geography, civic education and economics, two hours of aesthetics and two of technical education. Later, they begin a second foreign language; the first one is typically studied for seven years...