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N.D. students score high on ACT test
By Blake Nicholson, The Associated Press , The Jamestown Sun
Published Thursday, August 14, 2008
BISMARCK — North Dakota high school students as a whole continue to show they are better prepared for college courses than their counterparts nationwide, but American Indian students in the state continue to lag behind whites.
The ACT college entrance exam for the high school class of 2008 shows 24 percent of the 6,113 North Dakota test-takers met the college-readiness benchmark score in all four areas: English, math, reading and science. That compared with 22 percent nationally.
However, only 3 percent of the 220 Indian students in North Dakota who took the test met the benchmark score in all four areas. That compared with 25 percent of the 5,419 white students who took the test.
Read On (http://www.jamestownsun.com/articles/index.cfm?id=70771§ion=news)
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Technically, it's still not a national test, since most schools in the East use the SAT instead of the ACT.
There are only 220 Native students who took the ACT this year? Wow.