Wednesday, August 13, 2008

best ACT scores = Blue?

4th year in a row, Minnesota has the highest average ACT in the country. Of course, no one in the local media mentioned where (geographically within Minn.) those test scores were the highest. The western 'burbs, where the highest $ is? I'd be more interested in how the scores were distributed across various factors: local average income, local per capita spending on schools, in the Twin Cities or out, &c.

I expect the Republican Idiots in St. Paul to abruptly use this as justification for cutting or eliminating early childhood education (which is stunningly huge here). Ignoring the fact that these past 4 years of results are the result of having the ECFE in place.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well written article.

Gopher MPH said...

Thanks for the comment, Lourine. It never ceases to amaze me with the inability of people to grasp the lag-time between implementation of a policy and demonstrable effect. "Give more money to schools" + 12 months = look, nothing's happening, take it away!