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What a rousing success the leftists have had in dumbing down America
And with the adoption of Common Core it won’t matter if they can read or not, creative guessing will be enough.
Wow, this is the place where all the SMARTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH LIVE!
If they made the standards even tougher, the high school diploma might finally mean something, meaning employers can skip using the college diploma as a sorting mechanism and hire kids right out of high school. Heck, grade levels short of a high school diploma would actually mean something, too.
Hmmm...30% passed the math while only 26% passed the reading? Sounds to me like they need to make the math tests harder ;-)
Don’t worry about it.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan warns not to ‘be alarmed’ by lower test scores
How do you ad up GIVE ME GIVE ME?
Saw Bloomberg on the nearly news tonight trying to convince everyone that the test scores were lower because the test was harder. But it they were teaching using Common Core methods and material, the test scores should have been at least equal or even higher because the Common Core methods and materials are superior. Telling them the truth won’t work .... sort of like telling a new mother that her baby is one ugly creature ... drawing disbelief and ire.
Bet the the pass results for “China Town” are 99%. Some groups value education more than others
The commies in the education dept. are doing their jobs well, i.e., creating more and more future Democratic voters.
Seems it all has to do with deemphasizing the testing that was the heart of No Child Left Behind.
I remember Bush standing on the stage at a Harlem charter school and saying, in that emphatic way he had, "If you don't care about something, why measure it?" The absolute crux of the issue: accountability.
I hate to sound prejudiced, but some (probably many) kids just aren’t academic material. They belong in farms or factories.
The real problem is the ongoing social revolution, which seems to favor the creative or analytical over the manual or physical. While college is obsessively pushed as the path to a higher-paying job, not everyone has the level intelligence or ability.