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Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining? by home_boi on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:27AM (#15439355)
> they tend to become a terrible metric

Not exactly. When a test becomes study-able, it becomes a good metric for how hard people try and how much time/effort people put into their studies/career. And that is arguably what people making tests were trying to or would want to measure.

Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining? by noobermin on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:02AM (#15439490)
Not for a standardized test gauging the understanding of student's knowledge of Math or English.