n Mississippi, 89 percent of fourth-graders who took a state reading test were rated proficient or better. But when the same students took a federal test, only 18 percent reached that standard.
Such discrepancies are not uncommon. Students from all over the country performed worse on a tough federal test than they did on state exams in reading and math -- raising questions about whether states are setting lower standards.
From my schoolin' I know that the sentence starting "Students from all over performed worse" should say "performed worser" (rim shot, thank you, try the veal). It's not that surprising that state standards are way lower than federal standards. I even went to one of the "better" schools in MS which basically meant the week before standardized tests, we crammed for the test in every class to jack up the school's score.
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