October 2021 – The Afterclap

The Composite Report Card Grades are the average grade for the Nation, each state, and the District of Columbia.

The minimum College Readiness ACT Benchmark in Science is a report card grade equivalent to a 64.

The Afterclap Strongly cautions against comparing states or the national results to state results because the percentage of students taking the ACT varies widely between state to state and would not be an apples-to-apples comparison.

State	Composite Report Card Grade	Percent Meeting or Exceeding the Science Benchmark Grade of 64 or Better
Alabama	52	23
Alaska	57	38
Arizona	55	32
Arkansas	53	26
California	72	68
Colorado	64	56
Connecticut	76	76
Delaware	71	68
District of Columbia	71	66
Florida	57	35
Georgia	63	48
Hawaii	51	23
Idaho	64	51
Illinois	70	65
Indiana	64	52
Iowa	60	44
Kansas	55	32
Kentucky	53	26
Louisiana	51	23
Maine	71	69
Maryland	71	65
Massachusetts	77	79
Michigan	70	65
Minnesota	60	45
Mississippi	50	19
Missouri	57	36
Montana	57	36
National	56	35
Nebraska	56	35
Nevada	49	20
New Hampshire	74	71
New Jersey	70	62
New Mexico	58	37
New York	73	73
North Carolina	53	27
North Dakota	54	32
Ohio	54	31
Oklahoma	55	29
Oregon	57	38
Pennsylvania	69	64
Rhode Island	72	67
South Carolina	52	26
South Dakota	60	45
Tennessee	53	28
Texas	56	34
Utah	57	37
Vermont	67	66
Virginia	71	67
Washington	66	55
West Virginia	58	36
Wisconsin	56	36
Wyoming	55	32

Recent post:

Don’t know much about Sam Cooke’s Wonderful World A Self Evaluation

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LINKS and ATTRIBUTIONS:

ACT Average ACT Scores by State Graduating Class of 2021 https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/2021/2021-Average-ACT-Scores-by-State.pdf

A Self Evaluation

How close to the reality of our daily lives did Sam Cooke’s song, Wonderful World, come?

At The Afterclap, we consider it common to desire someone to love and be loved in return. But what about the rest of the song.

While the song Wonderful World was primarily composed by Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, Cooke revised the lyrics to include more education references. And when looking at the first two verses, ask yourself:

How much of those subjects did you learn during your birth through high school graduation years?

And how much have you forgotten?

Verse 1:

Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took

Verse 2:

Don’t know much about geography
Don’t know much trigonometry
Don’t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide rule is for

While not everyone took French, a foreign language, or used a slide rule: how much do you still remember if you did?

Because we are amid a pandemic, we have been asking ourselves these self-evaluative questions at The Afterclap. And not for the first time. In part because we are all about education. And as a result, we have been busy studying and translating the measurements of Science knowledge. And from the published data, our consensus so far:

As a nation, not enough of us learned or remembered what was in our science books.

Watch and listen to the song:

Sam Cooke – What A Wonderful World (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w

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LINKS and ATTRIBUTIONS:

Sam Cooke – Wikipedia (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964)

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sam_Cooke

Song: Wonderful World

Artist: Sam Cooke