Nearly 3.2 million California elementary school, middle-school and 11th grade students took the new Common Core tests this spring, and the results were significantly lower than under the previous STAR tests.
Just over half of 11th graders (56 percent) who took the new tests are “ready or conditionally ready” for college in terms of English literacy, while just 29 percent meet those standards in math. For an economy that increasingly runs on tech and professional jobs that require strong math, science and communications skills, that’s not a good sign.
For all grades tested — including grades 3-8 and juniors in high school — only 44 percent of the students taking the tests met or exceeded grade-level English literacy goals, and just 1 in 3 met the math standards.
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