Homeschool SAT Scores at the Top in SC
A story released today by The Time and Democrat shows that the SC State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex (D) is baking the public school SAT scores and using private and home school success as the yeast in his recipe. The story titled Honest is foundation of improvement by Randy Page states that Jim Rex fails to mention that the reported two point improvement in 2008 SC SAT scores over 2007 is based on private and independent scores shoring up the average. The public school scores in SC actually dropped by three points when you look at public schools only. Here is how the score stacked up in SC for 2008:
2008 SAT scores in South Carolina
Type School AVG Score*
Public School 980
Private School 1043
Home School 1088
*These scores do not include the new writing section of the SAT.
One observation I took away from this article is that SC is already spending over $11k per student which is more money per student than any of its neighbor states, yet SC is trailing in results. The home schooler are barely mentioned in this article, but at least they shine as the class act with the highest SAT scores mentioned in the article. I have more to say on education as a whole as it relates to the upcoming election, but I will save that for a separate post on another day.