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After the College Board released new SAT data Wednesday, experts struggled to explain a continuing drop in scores on the reading and writing sections of the college-entrance test. Students who graduated from high school in 2011 posted the worst average reading scores since 1972, and scores for writing were the worst since that section debuted in 2006.
On some level, these results may seem counterintuitive, because many of today’s cellphone-toting high school students write and read thousands of words of text every day. A plethora of organizations speculated on the data: The College Board surmised that scores had dropped as a larger, more diverse group of students sat for the test. Groups opposed to standardized testing blamed standardized testing.
