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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Texas does this. Top x percent of every HS is guaranteed admissions to UT i believe. State schools can and should do that. Private universities can do what they want to build the class they want. 
Us doesnt have a national curriculum and few national tests (and those are optional) so its harder to compare across the population. Other countries are often smaller or have  national subject tests which scores determine everything (hence cram schools in Korea and other places). Id much rather have a national curriculum and meaningful subject tests to see that our population is actually educated to some standard but that would never fly. [/quote]

Tried that with "common core" and it was a disaster.  Stop with the standardized testing.  
In lower income schools, it often meant teachers spent a good 20% of their time "Teaching to the test"   I knew schools that spent the first 15-20 mins of everyday in ES with the kids taking "mini standardized tests" then grading them and going over them.  Every. SIngle.Day.  30 mins of the day "wasted" IMO.  Rather than just focusing on teaching math or reading they focused on test taking.    And teachers and schools were penalized if kids were "below level".  But there was no rationality to the process: for example, if a class of 3rd graders came in reading at 3rd month of K as an average level, and in May of 3rd grade they are reading at the 2nd month of 2nd grade, those kids are "below grade level" on paper.  But using a bit of common sense tells you those kids made HUGE progress---they advanced 2 grade levels (minus 1 month) in less than 1 school year!!!!  That should be celebrated, this teacher finally reached the kids, the kids were finally able to learn and advance.  They should not be punished because they are "below grade level".

Yet that is exactly what happened.

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