{"id":1025,"date":"2014-09-22T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2014-09-22T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:25:52","slug":"are-park-citys-kids-college-ready-better-than-most-but-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/22\/are-park-citys-kids-college-ready-better-than-most-but-not-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Park City&#8217;s kids college ready? Better than most but not perfect."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Park City School District published\u00a0the 2014 College Readiness Letter from ACT, an organization that provides a standardized test used by many colleges as a factor in admittance. \u00a0The really encouraging\u00a0news is that Park City students\u00a0were\u00a0about\u00a025% more prepared for college classwork\u00a0than their counterparts in other Utah schools. \u00a0The results varied from 88% of students being\u00a0college ready in English Composition to 64% being ready in Algebra.<\/p>\n<p>The results get a little more concerning when\u00a0ACT combined all 4 major areas to determine\u00a0readiness. \u00a0In that case 50% of Park City students are college ready in the 4 major areas of english, math, social science, and biology. \u00a0That&#8217;s still far above the state average of 25%.<\/p>\n<p>So relatively speaking, Park City is preparing its students for college. \u00a0However, about half of all students appear to need to up their\u00a0game in at least one area once they arrive at university.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boarddocs.com\/ut\/pcsd\/Board.nsf\/files\/9NUH6J46F3A9\/$file\/ACT%20Information%20copy.pdf\">The original document is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/act.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/act.jpg\" alt=\"act\" width=\"616\" height=\"788\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Park City School District published\u00a0the 2014 College Readiness Letter from ACT, an organization that provides a standardized test used by many colleges as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}