[combat_boots]

You cannot teach those who WILL NOT LEARN. A generation of Bart Simpson. Two generations of working moms. 1.5 generations of day care kids, kept by others from 6 am to 6 pm. The whole too cool for school thing. Rap.

Get rich or die tryin, but learn something? Riiiiiiiiight.

[B.O. Plenty]

.....raising questions about the quality of teaching in U.S. schools.

Mr JOHN HECHINGER of the WSJ must have just arrived in the USA via a flying saucer from deep space....or he hasn't been paying any attention for the last 40 years. Scores have been trending down at least since the "Great Society", and I would argue a whole lot longer...perhaps since the "New Deal".

[eclecticEel]

raising questions about the quality of teaching in U.S. schools.

There's nothing at all questionable about the quality of teaching in U.S. schools - it's in the gutter and everyone knows it.

[GOP_Raider]

I wonder how home schooled kids did this year...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... the gap widened between low-scoring minority groups and the overall population, ...

Dare dey go agin, dissin minorities. Gonna lower dare self-esteems.

[paudio]

They used wrong subjects for testing. They need to test more important subjects such as ethnic studies, gender studies, American imperialism, American racism, and so on. Guaranteed, the scores would be very high compared to 30-40 years ago.

[varyouga]

According to some teachers I know, the SAT has been getting incrementally easier over the last decades while scores have effectively been going down.

They were the last “old-school” decent teachers I knew that actually cared about education instead of “diversity” and “self esteem”. Unfortunately, they all recently retired because they couldn't handle the insanity. No replacements to be seen. I would teach but don't think I could handle the school environment today and I'd barely survive on the scraps they'd give me.

We're in deep sh**

[metmom]

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[PAR35]

When scores drop, they generally just ‘re-norm’ the test, and inflate the scores to the former level.