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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There is not a single problem with education. [b]There are multiple problems[/b], both separate and interconnected.[b] One of these problems, in some places, is low standards. [/b]Is it the biggest problem? I don't think so. But there is a complete unwillingness to address the problems that I consider the biggest problems. So people take what they can get.[/quote]

And[b] they had low standards because that was the best they could do[/b].  Will suddenly having higher standards make them do better?  Not if everything else stays the same.

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I don't think that's necessarily true. Anecdotally, I am familiar with cases where people thought their kids' schools were doing great, whereas actually their kids were a year or more behind kids in schools with higher standards. In addition, at least for math, it's not that the standards are higher, it's that to achieve the standards, the math curriculum has to be better. On the whole, math teaching in the US has not been good.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html[/quote]

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