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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - Interesting study, 10:16.  But is it actually measuring by the exact same standard across all years going back to 1973?   Somehow I doubt it is.

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Luckily, you don't have to speculate about the answer for this question. You can look it up:

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/about/

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/about/ltt_main_diff.aspx[/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they delegate that testing to the states (i.e. CAS) - and the states in turn define their own standards, state by state, and year by year?

Not exactly a "common yardstick".  Anything but.[/quote]

You are wrong. Read this link:

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/about/ltt_main_diff.aspx
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So how does this "the schools are getting better" mythology square with all of the other statistics, such as ever increasing dropout rates?

How does that square with the fact that, according to a Common Core study most American high school students don't even know a lot of basic historical information, like who Adolph Hitler is, or when the Civil War was fought, or when Columbus arrived in the Americas?  http://www.examiner.com/article/shocking-things-many-u-s-high-schoolers-don-t-know

And here are some NCES statistics that show that American teens do far worse on most subjects than students in other industrialized nations:  http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08_403.asp

NAEP is just smoke and mirrors.  The sad reality is that our kids are woefully undereducated and underprepared.[/quote]

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