Ah, they’ve probably done it like Utah. Just lower the bar until it looks good. It’s far less expensive.
You mean National Standardized tests?
Oh yeah…those.
“If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?”
Easy, 11 but I only care if I can name of them Charlie and another Pho King.
Is the joke that 48 out of 50 is a bigger number than 15 (or whatever they are) so they think they’re higher up? Or was there some news report I missed about Alabama doing really well on standardized tests?
I started looking at https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/data/ and verified that Alabama beat both caly and ny at the grade 4 level in math, but not reading, in grade 8 they beat Cali in math. Ny didn’t have a valid result? Thru didn’t beat in reading…then discovered that this was some kind of aggregate data ending in 2022. Then I realized I don’t care enough to keep going, wrote this, and now I’m going to go for a walk.
Lol I had almost the exact same experience after I left that comment. I fell into a rabbit hole trying to find the answer and had an “oh, I don’t actually care about this” moment
These only measure people who take the tests. The reason U.S. scores are so low in the first place is that its education system doesn’t filter kids by their middle or elementary school performance.
