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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Back when I was growing up, in the 70's and 80's, I don't recall having one single standardized test. Back then, there were a lot more kids graduating school who could only read at an ES level, or not read at all. [/quote]

Doubtful.
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I guess you've never read the description of how great American schooling was in the 1970s and early 1980s, [b]contained in the 1983 report A Nation At Risk.[/b]

(to the top PP -- I took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in the 1970s and 80s.)[/quote]

PP, thanks for reminding us about this report.  I just read a portion of this (a very short portion).  Very alarming.  This report was written about 30 yrs ago.

https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html

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Eh. [b]I think that A Nation At Risk was a horrible report[/b], and it led to bad results, which we're still dealing with to this day. The main benefit of A Nation At Risk is to remind people who are nostalgic for the good old days of the 1970s and 1980s that they were not actually the good old days.

However, I don't include the Common Core standards among the bad results of A Nation At risk. I think that the Common Core standards are an improvement.[/quote]

Why do you think it was a bad report?[/quote]

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