Nev. students gain no ground in college readiness scores
By Meghin Delaney, Las Vegas Review-Journal
An ambitious goal to improve Nevada students’ performance on a college readiness test might take a little longer to get moving.
For the third consecutive year, the average ACT score of more than 34,000 students in the state — the majority of them high school juniors — was stagnant at 17.4 out of 36 points on the nationwide college entrance exam.
Only 10 percent scored high enough to be considered “college-ready” by the exam’s standards, according to the state.
