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At-Risk Students Who Fall Behind Struggle to Catch Up, Study Finds
Underachieving students in at-risk groups are less likely than other underachieving students to meet college-readiness standards four years later, according to a report released on Thursday by ACT.
The report describes the percentage of "far off track" students in at-risk categories (low-income, Hispanic, black, and special-education students, as well as those for whom English is a second language) who met college-readiness standards–based on their test scores in mathematics, reading, and science–four years after taking the examinations in Grades 4 and 8. The ACT researchers then compared the performance of students in the at-risk groups to that of other "far off track" students. (Students were deemed "far off track" by scoring more than a full standard deviation below the "on track" target ACT test scores for their respective grades in school.)
by Monica Vendituoli
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