Re:Less than half of California students read or do math at ...
by fnordpiglet on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:45PM
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It’s not really going down. There are years it was worse and years it was better. It seems like it’s staying fairly consistent around the original threshold, which appears to be close the median. But I’d note the first year observed was lower than this last year observed, so it couldn’t have been the actual median. They probably intentionally picked a level below the median as the threshold to convince people to freak out and “send funding now”
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Re:Less than half of California students read or do math at ...
by babypuncher on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:38PM
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Yeah after taking a closer look at everything, it seems that the actual headline is alarmist and heavily misleading.
The conclusion to take from this is that the pandemic had a mild negative impact on test results, but otherwise everything is fine, and actually marginally improved since these metrics were first established.