Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Educational Inadequacies

gritsisit said...

I wish our leaders would address the educational inadequacies in Natchez. When this was brought up at a city council meeting last year, I heard Joyce Arceneaux say "Natchez has a wonderful education system" and that was the end of the discussion. I've also heard that our ACT scores in Natchez were second to last in the country - after the city of Washington, D.C. Is that true? Does anyone know the facts?

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Anonymous said...

Here is a current list of scores for our nation. Some states with higher scores only represent a small percent of the students. For instance,I think I saw it on 20/20 that Texas scores well because only students who can do well take the test. As for our state scores, I think our private schools play a important part. http://www.act.org/news/data/06/states-text.html