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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at all the educational enrichment centers. The curriculum has been watered down from when we were kids and places like AOPS, RSM, Kumon, etc fill in the gaps.

Because the basic curriculum is watered down so much, anyone who cares about education has their average kids take honors/AP/IB classes. Everything is open enrollment now so there is a huge range of abilities. [b]Even the College Board has admitted to norming the AP test scores to reflect the fact that kids know less than 10 years ago[/b] but they still want to get paid. Schools love to brag about how many kids are taking higher level courses but the teachers know that tons of the kids taking them shouldn’t be there. Admin gets on us if not enough kids pass so we have to make the classes easier. It’s like a housing bubble. Lots of hype, little substance.[/quote]

Citation?

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https://www.educationnext.org/grade-inflation-sends-ap-test-scores-soaring/
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A RW op-ed isn’t “the College Board has admitted to norming the AP test scores to reflect the fact that kids know less than 10 years ago”.

Stop pushing RW opinions/agendas as facts.

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How tf is striving for educational excellence and return to merit based education a right wing agenda? I thought the left wing families loved the Ivy's.

That aside, it's well known that SAT/ACT/AP/etc tests have all been dumbed down in content, in cheat tools like Desmos/TI-84, or both.

[url=https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/annual-ap-program-participation-1956-2025.pdf]More people[/url] are taking the AP test than before. Literally 4x the number of kids in only 25 years. Yet the [url=https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-score-distributions-all-subjects-2005-2025.pdf]score distribution[/url] has skewed higher during this time? Are we to pretend that an equal distribution of students from average to smart added to the total test takers each year and then scored higher, on average?

You'd assume that most of the smart kids were already taking the test and the increasing numbers of kids (each year) taking the test came from the average to above-average population. And seriously, in 15 years, the number of students who were getting a score of 1 fell from 1/5 to 1/10? And during the same time, the number of kids getting a score of 4 or 5 went up by 10%? Meanwhile, and strangely the number that would be expected to move the most, i.e., a score of 3, remained virtually unchanged during this time span. Mere coincidences, right?

[img]https://i.imgur.com/4W5tSKf.png[/img]

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