DODEA wants answers to students’ declining performance on SATs

[unhappycamper]

DODEA wants answers to students’ declining performance on SATs
By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, November 1, 2009

SAT math scores for students at Defense Department schools are falling further below the national average.

For the third straight year, Department of Defense Education Activity students have seen their math scores dip, from 512 in 2006 to 498 in 2009. A perfect score is 800.

In 2006, DODEA’s math scores were six points below the national average. Now, they are 17 points below, according to test results released recently.

“We’re not happy with the scores. They’re not where we want them to be,” Sheridan Pearce, DODEA mathematics coordinator, said in a recent phone interview from Arlington, Va.

“We’re concerned by the trend.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65785

[aSpeckofDust]

1. Crappy Administration. There's your answer. N/t

[Crowman1979]

2. What the hell do you expect DODEA!?!?!

Especially all the stress brought upon a family having to deal with multiple deployments.