Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s

Re:Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s by astrodust on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:20PM (#17305702)

The real problem with US education is that there's an "inner city" phenomenon at all. In every other country in the world "inner city" children are just children.

Standardization itself isn't the problem per-se, it's that schools get put in the uncomfortable position of having to hit certain metrics or they lose funding. What they do to maintain funding is eject under-performing kids so they don't drag down their average.

This is what happens when you have metrics that encourage the wrong outcome and turn the entire education system into a game that has a meta.

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Re:Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s by pas on Monday June 18, 2018 @08:31AM (#17337709)

Agreed. And of course it's very hard to go to school when your family has no money. Or you don't even have a family. And of course it's hard to keep families together, when people can't find jobs, because silly X-while-black convictions, a-and of course it's even harder to keep people on track in school when they are just a literal fuck up away from dropping out because they don't have access to birth control (nor proper education about reproduction).

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