The rewards of rigor.Math scores on the 2000 SAT hit a 30-year high, and a more rigorous high school curriculum is getting the credit Since 1990, overall math scores on the SAT have risen 13 points, to 514 this year. Gains were made across virtually all racial/ethnic groups and among male and female students. College Board President Gaston Caperton William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21 1940) was twice elected as governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia and served from 1989 until 1997. He is currently the president of the College Board, which administers the nationally-recognized SAT and AP tests. attributed the gains to the fact that more students are taking pre-calculus, calculus calculus, branch of mathematics that studies continuously changing quantities. The calculus is characterized by the use of infinite processes, involving passage to a limit—the notion of tending toward, or approaching, an ultimate value. and physics courses. "To sustain this momentum, we must increase the availability of rigorous courses, including AP courses, especially in inner cities and remote rural areas," Caperton said. The 41-point advantage in math scores males had in 1980 has closed slightly, with females now scoring 35 points below males. However, the gap between white and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. students has increased slightly. Verbal scores on the SAT remained stable at 505 for the fifth consecutive year, despite growing numbers of English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. learners. |
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