Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining?
by swivelmaster on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:49PM
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You're misunderstanding the entire point of my post. I'm not talking about the scores being bad, I'm talking about the scores miraculously shifting downward for every state that uses that test in the last year.
Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining?
by catawbasam on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:05AM
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Your comment would have been more credible if you had spelled 'Asimov' correctly.
Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining?
by wcarron on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:19AM
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That's false. A simple spelling mistake, which everyone makes from time to time, does not invalidate his or her comment.
Re:2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining?
by omginternets on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:22PM
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And your would be more credible if it had substance.
Please forgive what might be construed as quibbling, but I'm increasingly dismayed by the doxa that poor scores on tests reflect poor testing practices.
To be clear, testing practices in the U.S. are crappy, but so is the secondary education system in general (at least, compared to much of Western Europe).
More to the point: these results point to a problem either with the test or with the educational system, or with the cultural values surrounding education in the U.S.
My bet, having lived on both continents, is on the latter. I invite the reader to read Assimov's 1980 essay A Cult of Ignorance, as it provides a good description of what I believe to be the fundamental problem.