How’s this for a depressing lede: “Scores on the critical reading portion of the SAT college entrance exam fell three points to their lowest level on record last year, and combined reading and math scores reached their lowest point since 1995.”
The full story is here.
Granted, it’s the SAT, and therefore not a representative sampling of all high school students. But you only take the SAT if you’re college-bound, right? So the actual numbers could be even worse.
Either way, it’s not a good time to be a writer…
