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[quote=Anonymous][quote] I don't understand this argument. The best US students are as good as students internationally, and so therefore...? I also don't understand why fractions, for example, would be different in Maryland than in Alabama.[/quote] You don't understand because you cannot see the big picture. You only argue discrete points on a line. You view education as a line of discrete points that follow in some sort of progression that makes sense to your way of thinking. You have to get to know many human beings and how they learn and then try to understand how individuals fit into a process called "education". This takes years of experience and a lot of reflection on the whole process. Standardized tests have their place, but they are just one tool (and not, by a long shot, the most significant one). What matters in education is not something the feds can impact very easily, if at all. [/quote]
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