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Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

A group of children join together for story time at the Tent for Tots booth at the Tucson Festival of Books. (Photo by: Gloria Knott/Arizona Sonora News Service)

70 percent of 4th-graders don’t read proficiently — what’s the problem?

Gloria Knott April 5, 2018

Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of...

Students leave Tucson High School as school gets out on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. High schools did worse on the AzMERIT than primary schools. Photo taken by CJ D’Innocente.

Test scores reflect education inequality in poor areas

CJ D'Innocente October 11, 2017

State test scores highlight educational inequality in rural areas with high percentages of poor students. On the 2016-17 AzMERIT test, 39 percent of Arizona students passed the English section of...

Estudiantes de Arizona enfrentan problemas con los estándares nacionales de matemáticas

Alicia Vega October 20, 2015

Los estudiantes de la preparatoria Tombstone obtienen un puntaje más elevado en las pruebas estandarizadas de matemáticas a comparación con la mayoría del resto de los estudiantes arizonenses.Eso no...

Arizona students have problems with national math standards

Arizona students have problems with national math standards

Lexus Scott October 8, 2015

Tombstone High School students score higher at standardized math testing than most Arizona students.That is not necessarily good news. All Arizona students score below the national norm.A year ago the...

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