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By Thomas Ultican 8/1/2023
The 74 recently ran an opinion piece, “ America’s Education System Is a Mess, and It’s Students Who Are Paying the Price ”. Author David Steiner, Executive Director of Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Education Policy, claimed, “The fundamental cause of poor outcomes is that policy leaders have eroded the instructional core & designed our education system for failure.” He was referencing the recent decline in math and reading scores on NAEP testing while ignoring “ The Stolen Year ” lost to a pandemic. Ironical
The above graphs used NAEP Data Explorer , based on a 500-point scale, all scores fit within a 30-point range. Since 1992, reading and math scores have wiggled up and down on a small range. In 2022, almost all students missed one year of in-person instruction and in some states, like California, more than half the three years tested. If there had not been a dip in scoring, it would have been powerful proof about the uselessness of standardized testing.
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