“Hispanic and black students continue to lag behind their white and Asian counterparts.”
It’s a good thing that race isn’t real, or this would be troubling.
Common core epitomizes liberals silent bigotry of lowered expectations.
I watched a docu about Shakespeare today. By age 12 he had a college level education - taught mostly in latin. By age 18, the equivalent of a doctorate. He was not the only student in the class, not the only class in school, not the only school in his parish. So, if children of 500 years ago could absorb knowledge and be able to logically process it, and children of 100 years ago could do the same, it’s not a lack of cognitive ability. Unless the IQ of the attendees has been dumbed down by external factors. Or college has just become another place to goof off and squander borrowed money outside the confines of the parents’ home.
Why, the answer is obvious: stop testing.
Just as Eisenhower warned of the military/industrial complex; beware of the education/union/goverment complex.
If you are a VIP In the ERA and took the SAT and ACT but are an NPC do you still have an ETA on the AOC. RSPV PDQ.
In 1922, he wrote an essay >b>Vox Populi that defines the kind of man or woman who can rise about the uneducated "mob" as he called it, and effectively lead it.
Mencken's essay essentially presaged President Donald J. Trump and a couple years back I plucked out the best parts of Vox Populi and posted is as an FR vanity.
Mencken both entertains and illuminates the topic in a way perhaps no one has done before and since. Check it out:
H. L. Mencken Predicted Donald Trump, the Enlightened Rabble-Rouser
p>The cause may simply be that more and more people are taking the test. There are only so many high IQ people in the country. Once most or all of them are taking the test,expanding the number of test-takers brings in people of lower and lower IQ. That drags down the average score. I’d like to know if the number of high scorers has declined, or if that number remains constant, but the average is being dragged down by the kind of people who didn’t take the test previously.