Reaching Out To Local High Schools
 In an attempt to
improve state Standardized Test scores, Utah State has
developed a 60-minute video program and an 88-page educators’
guide that boosted scores by 20 percent. Washington State
began “Feed Your Brain,” a middle school program that
improved passing grades by 60 percent; 44 percent improved their
reading by one grade level and 12 percent improved reading by two
grade levels.
In Nevada a
large percentage of capable high school students are not being
sufficiently challenged. Through the “Early College” program
at UNR, more than 1,500 students have participated, with
virtually all going on to attend an accredited four-year
institute. Chad Bingham, McQueen H. S. 1999, acknowledged ”with
the boost from Early College, I was able to complete my first
three semesters of calculus, before ever being accepted to UNR.”
Of those attending UNR, 71 percent enrolled in the honors
program.
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