SD Students Outperform Peers

The Rapid City Journal reports some good education news for South Dakota:

Students at South Dakota’s public universities outperformed their counterparts nationwide in two tests of academic progress, the South Dakota Board of Regents reported.
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On average, South Dakota public university students who took the proficiency exam in the 2005-06 school year exceeded national averages in all four areas of the test: writing skills, math, reading and science reasoning.

For the first time since the proficiency exams were required in 1998, all six public universities had scores above the national average in each of the subject areas.