Utah Education Scores a High Note
In a recently released annual report of AP Scoring nation-wide, Utah ranked 9th for the percentage of high school students in the country passed their AP tests in 2007. That is pretty amazing considering their relative low amount of money gets spent per child. Or at least that seems to be what I often hear.
Here is the report from the Deseret News.
Utah ranked ninth in the nation for percentage of students passing AP examinations in 2007, with nearly one out of every five public high school seniors in the state passing at least one AP exam, according to data released today by the College Board.
The 4th Annual AP Report to the Nation noted 14,096 Utah students took a total of 22,609 AP exams in 2007 and that 14,891 of those tests came in with a score of 3, 4 or 5, good enough to earn college credit. That gave the state’s public school students an overall pass rate of 65.9 percent, compared to the national pass rate of 57.2 percent.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I read the article and found it quite interesting, particularly as I work in education here in Texas. I think it speaks to the value that the culture of Utah places on education. I read an article on family size and educational attainment. It noted that the larger the family the lower the educational attainment of the children. The exception that researchers found to this trend were Mormons.
Brandon
February 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I think that you are right on. That education has a high emphasis within mormon families, however, with resources becoming tighter and more scare, if that emphasis wasn’t there (such as we have in the church), it seems to make sense that the larger the family the less educational attainment would make sense.