re: ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low -- HEY! TEACHERS UNIONS???

Smart kids do well
Good kids perform higher.

All the others you cannot help. I'm sorry, but it begins and starts at home. Most to not have the basic competency skills to understand an ACT.

For those that do not know the ACT is not like taking a 9th grade test and having half of America scoring a 50% on.

The way the ACT is set up is by completing a building block of skills. Like when a kid takes the Math portion of the ACT. The test is 40 questions. The tester will get so many algebra, geometry, Algebra II and then Pre-Cal. In many cases these kids could have bombed geometry and have not attempted or currently in Algebra II. Many never see Pre-Cal.