How do we know for sure that South Carolina’s proficiency standards are higher than other states?
Six independent national research studies have confirmed the wide disparities in academic proficiency standards among the states. In each of these studies, South Carolina was cited as having standards that were among the nation’s most rigorous. These same studies also found that our standards were similar in rigor to those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests (NAEP) mandated under NCLB.
