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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Metrics schmetrics.  They've watered down the testing.  I seriously doubt the NAEP testing being done today is exactly the same as it was in the 1970s.

Schools have gone downhill over the last several decades and everyone knows it.  [/quote]

You can rely on "everyone knows", or you can look at the data. Which method do you think provides more accurate information?[/quote]

NCES data as above shows that American public schools are far behind most other advanced nations in education.

You can try all you like to promote a view that "it's better than it was a few years ago" via NCES statistics but that's in ignorance of the overall picture - which is that any improvements are but a drop in the bucket and that the US public school system has a long way to go.  Look at CAS scores for DC as yet another example.  Sure, we have schools going from, say 19 percent proficient to 23 percent proficient and yes, that's an improvement but it still means that the overwhelming majority of classrooms are not functioning at grade level for proficiency.[/quote]

"How do our schools compare to the schools in other countries?" is a different question from "Are our schools getting better or worse?".[/quote]

No, the fundamental question is whether our own local public schools are any good or not.  In comparison to US national averages, they are horrendous.  And, in turn, if we compare US national averages to international averages, we aren't even doing all that well there, either[/quote]

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