What can one expect? They teach the kids nothing.
Thank you public school teacher unions.
No worries: homeschooling for a couple of months will change the scores upward.
Doesn’t surprise me. I ended a 30-year career of teaching World History/Geography in a public HS 12 years ago. As I was briefing my replacement, he told me he was coming in with a mandate from the principal to teach the course w/o having the students learn maps.
Having my students memorize maps of the regions of the world was one of my trademarks as a teacher.
I picked my jaw up off the floor, then my belongings, and left.
I taught jr high history for many years. As far as testing is concerned, math, reading and science are the only subjects considered worth testing.
About 10 years before I retired, I was told that my role as a history teacher was to devote myself to raising the math and reading scores. Helping the reading scores was easy, to be successful, the kids had to actually read the text. As for math, I’d throw in a question like, “the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903—how long ago was that?” “No, you can’t use a calculator”. Maybe 2/3rds of the 8th graders could do the subtraction.
How many can locate Wuhan, China on a map?
Common Core working as designed......
To busy being taught social issues.
scores weren’t that great in 2014.
Yeah, but they “know” America is a racist country founded on slavery and that sexual perversion is something to celebrate.
My 11 grade US history teachers passed away a couple of days ago. He was 90 years. A good two dozen of his former students, including me, emailed comments to the funeral home. He taught history for over 30 years; he retired in 1988. I took his course from 1965-1966.
How could the scores drop? They are not taught, nor are they expected to know, jack shit about these subjects.
As I understand it, most public schools start history at/after the War Between the States because they feel it’s too much information for the snowflakes to absorb.
History, geography and civics...are you kidding? I remember my friends who attended public school, telling me they did no studies of these subjects. None! Several didn’t know what Thanksgiving decorations signified. They couldn’t find England (or anywhere else) on a map. Or define “civics.” This was in the years 2000-2010.
And I’m sorry to say they lost any interest and curiosity by the time they graduated. Only sports and social life mattered.
When a fifty-something wins Jeopardy then we’ll know the American education system has totally failed.
When I was in 8th grade in 2000-01, it was mandatory in IL to pass an American History exam. If you didn’t, you didn’t go to high school.
It’s safe to assume that this is no longer the case.
Whose version?
That is why we need to watch CNN and MSNBC!
NAEP: 8th-graders' scores drop in US history, geography, math, science, English, and everything else.
The libtards’ control of the public school system is working as planned. The dumbing down of the population to make them more malleable D voters continues apace! Is anyone doing anything about this? Perhaps the homeschoolers who were doing it before COVID.