Posted on 04/27/2016 6:10:02 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The average performance of the nation’s high school seniors dropped in math from 2013 to 2015, but held steady in reading, according to results of a biennial test released Wednesday.
The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also showed a drop in the percentage of students in private and public schools who are considered prepared for college-level work in reading and math. In 2013, the last time the test was given, 39 percent of students were estimated to be ready in math and 38 percent in reading; in 2015, 37 percent were judged prepared in each subject.
In a survey attached to the test, 42 percent of students said they had been accepted to a four-year college, suggesting that the need for remedial courses in college will remain stubborn.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A national disgrace and the fault of the Left and the public employee unions, specifically the NEA and AFT. Disgusting.
Does the “education elites” understand the concept of an inverse correlation? The more money that’s spent per student, the lower the test scores.
Get rid of common core. It defies logic.
From the movie Idiocracy:
“If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?”
Odd that Kate Zernike of the New York Times doesn’t do the usual racial breakdown... Always done when it assist their pet victim groups.
I wonder why not this time? Is the Times is pushing another liberal delusion? You betcha...
This year has been a disaster on the academic front. I warn parents with middle schoolers, do not buy into the latest scheme known as "blended learning". Only a select few have the motivation and discipline to thrive in such an independent environment.
He's done well in other pursuits, such as making first chair trumpet in Honor Winds, but even that's been a struggle. My wife doesn't seem to understand that he's displaying the stubborn streak that comes from her side of the family. My mom and stepdad weren't helicopter parents, and left me alone as long as my grades were ok.
Sorry for the rant, but last night was a bad scene with son and mom. I back my wife, of course, but she is never content to make her points and move on. She's done it with me, driving a point over and over again, never content to end without several belittling comments that she thinks proves her point.
I'll have a(nother) conversation with him after school today. Something's going to have to give, and it won't be academics or band. Athletics or scouts, one or both, are candidates for the chopping block. I need to make it that it's inevitably his choice not mine.
As a college chemistry instructor I find myself spending at least 10 minutes each lecture teaching students basic algebra needed for Intro Chemistry. Math deficiency is probably the number one reason students drop my course.
I don’t know, but the bucket containing 7 gallons will be a lot harder to carry than the one with 2 gallons.
Now we're LIVING it.
Atlas Shrugged is now nonfiction.
Both buckets will be easy to carry since they have electrolytes.
I bet this reflects a decline in the number of while males in high school (as a percentage of total population).
As is Animal Farm.
Well, as long as the little darling’s self esteem is intact....
In essence the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) did just that by burying the words and deeds in the latest addition of the No Child Left Behind reauthorization act included in or part of ESSA. My take on ESSA, despite the glowing reviews, if Osama Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pilosi are eager to have it in law, the sane world better be looking very closely at what it contains.
The part that really sucked, was it appeared about 24 hours before the vote, as at least a thousand page bill. Another example of defying logic, using that pilosi tactic of “you have to pass the bill to find out what is in it”. If no one finds that to be treasonous logic, you don’t want to live in my world.
I like pie!
That’s what they use to make Brawndo!
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