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A 9-year-old girl stood before the school board and absolutely eviscerated standardized tests

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/9-year-olds-mic-drop-on-standardized-tests-ex1/

Professor discusses UC push to reinstate SAT, ACT testing

Always disappointing to see what a limp faculty *does* become activist about... 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_h_KhoEkpc #Ableism #StandardizedTesting

Professor discusses UC push to reinstate SAT, ACT testing

Always disappointing to see what a limp faculty *does* become activist about... 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_h_KhoEkpc #Ableism #StandardizedTesting

Professor discusses UC push to reinstate SAT, ACT testing

Always disappointing to see what a limp faculty *does* become activist about... 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_h_KhoEkpc #Ableism #StandardizedTesting

Professor discusses UC push to reinstate SAT, ACT testing

Always disappointing to see what a limp faculty *does* become activist about... 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_h_KhoEkpc #Ableism #StandardizedTesting

Professor discusses UC push to reinstate SAT, ACT testing

Always disappointing to see what a limp faculty *does* become activist about... 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_h_KhoEkpc #Ableism #StandardizedTesting

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

“Adaptive” standardized tests are not “standardized” because the computer assigns different exams to each student based on their answers to initial questions, capping their maximum score early on, incentivizing students to quit early to, using speedrunner terminology, avoid wasting time on a “dead run”. #sat #standardizedTesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized_adaptive_testing

Ars Technica: Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini. “Of course, generative AI can go off the rails and provide incorrect information, which is a problem when you’re trying to learn things. However, Google says it has worked with education firms like The Princeton Review to ensure the AI-generated tests resemble what students will see in the real deal. The interface […]

Ars Technica: Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini. “Of course, generative AI can go off the rails and provide incorrect information, which is a problem when you’re trying to learn things. However, Google says it has worked with education firms like The Princeton Review to ensure the AI-generated tests resemble what students will see in the real deal. The interface […]

Ars Technica: Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini. “Of course, generative AI can go off the rails and provide incorrect information, which is a problem when you’re trying to learn things. However, Google says it has worked with education firms like The Princeton Review to ensure the AI-generated tests resemble what students will see in the real deal. The interface […]

Ars Technica: Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini. “Of course, generative AI can go off the rails and provide incorrect information, which is a problem when you’re trying to learn things. However, Google says it has worked with education firms like The Princeton Review to ensure the AI-generated tests resemble what students will see in the real deal. The interface […]

Calling all #readers and #writers! Are your skills up to the challenge?

Suneung: #SouthKorea exam chief quits over 'insane' #English test https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w792x0ggyo

#education #standardizedtesting #readingcomprehension #college

Calling all #readers and #writers! Are your skills up to the challenge?

Suneung: #SouthKorea exam chief quits over 'insane' #English test https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w792x0ggyo

#education #standardizedtesting #readingcomprehension #college

Calling all #readers and #writers! Are your skills up to the challenge?

Suneung: #SouthKorea exam chief quits over 'insane' #English test https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w792x0ggyo

#education #standardizedtesting #readingcomprehension #college

Calling all #readers and #writers! Are your skills up to the challenge?

Suneung: #SouthKorea exam chief quits over 'insane' #English test https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w792x0ggyo

#education #standardizedtesting #readingcomprehension #college

Calling all #readers and #writers! Are your skills up to the challenge?

Suneung: #SouthKorea exam chief quits over 'insane' #English test https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w792x0ggyo

#education #standardizedtesting #readingcomprehension #college

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

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That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

The best of The Post’s opinions and commentary, in your inbox every morning

That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

The best of The Post’s opinions and commentary, in your inbox every morning

That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

The best of The Post’s opinions and commentary, in your inbox every morning

That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

Opinion

Megan McArdle

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore

UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.

November 23, 2025, 5 min

Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.

The best of The Post’s opinions and commentary, in your inbox every morning

That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).

Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.

Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.

🎤

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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post

#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd

4 everyday phrases that may indicate someone is highly intelligent

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/four-clear-signs-of-intelligence

4 everyday phrases that may indicate someone is highly intelligent

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/four-clear-signs-of-intelligence

4 everyday phrases that may indicate someone is highly intelligent

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/four-clear-signs-of-intelligence

Democrats say recent changes to a bill that would replace the STAAR test give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/27/529558/texas-house-democrats-frustration-with-staar-bill-highlights-divide-over-how-new-test-should-look/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasEducationAgency #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature

Democrats say recent changes to a bill that would replace the STAAR test give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/27/529558/texas-house-democrats-frustration-with-staar-bill-highlights-divide-over-how-new-test-should-look/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasEducationAgency #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature

Democrats say recent changes to a bill that would replace the STAAR test give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/27/529558/texas-house-democrats-frustration-with-staar-bill-highlights-divide-over-how-new-test-should-look/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasEducationAgency #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature

Democrats say recent changes to a bill that would replace the STAAR test give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/27/529558/texas-house-democrats-frustration-with-staar-bill-highlights-divide-over-how-new-test-should-look/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasEducationAgency #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature

Democrats say recent changes to a bill that would replace the STAAR test give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/27/529558/texas-house-democrats-frustration-with-staar-bill-highlights-divide-over-how-new-test-should-look/

#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasEducationAgency #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the STAAR test as part of the upcoming special session. It's unclear how that will address the problems critics have with the way standardized tests are used in Texas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/07/10/526159/abbott-calls-for-lawmakers-to-replace-staar-test-as-part-of-special-session/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #SpecialSession #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasGovGregAbbott #TexasPublicSchools

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the STAAR test as part of the upcoming special session. It's unclear how that will address the problems critics have with the way standardized tests are used in Texas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/07/10/526159/abbott-calls-for-lawmakers-to-replace-staar-test-as-part-of-special-session/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #SpecialSession #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasGovGregAbbott #TexasPublicSchools

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the STAAR test as part of the upcoming special session. It's unclear how that will address the problems critics have with the way standardized tests are used in Texas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/07/10/526159/abbott-calls-for-lawmakers-to-replace-staar-test-as-part-of-special-session/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #SpecialSession #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasGovGregAbbott #TexasPublicSchools

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the STAAR test as part of the upcoming special session. It's unclear how that will address the problems critics have with the way standardized tests are used in Texas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/07/10/526159/abbott-calls-for-lawmakers-to-replace-staar-test-as-part-of-special-session/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #SpecialSession #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasGovGregAbbott #TexasPublicSchools

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the STAAR test as part of the upcoming special session. It's unclear how that will address the problems critics have with the way standardized tests are used in Texas.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/07/10/526159/abbott-calls-for-lawmakers-to-replace-staar-test-as-part-of-special-session/

#Education #EducationNews #HISD #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #SpecialSession #STAARTest #StandardizedTesting #TexasGovGregAbbott #TexasPublicSchools

On a whim, I grabbed a copy of an AP Computer Science test-prep book from a local Little Library and ~treated~ tortured myself with a few of the example multiple-choice questions.

Most were... fine, if pretty unpleasant to read, but a couple were egregiously badly phrased, and one or two seemed to be outright wrong (i.e., had no correct solution).

Take this one, for example. If I'm reading it right, not only does it fail to define some of the variables it uses, but even a lenient reading of it seems to imply it will almost immediately hit an out-of-bound index on most input data.

Why do we put high schoolers through this crap, again?

#computerscience #algorithm #standardizedtesting #ap

The Texas Senate passed a bill to eliminate the STAAR test — the state's standardized test for public schools — while also overhauling how schools are rated and limiting legal challenges that have delayed accountability scores in recent years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/05/28/522436/texas-senate-votes-to-end-staar-shield-school-ratings-from-lawsuits/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Government #HoustonISD #Staar #StandardizedTesting

The Texas Senate passed a bill to eliminate the STAAR test — the state's standardized test for public schools — while also overhauling how schools are rated and limiting legal challenges that have delayed accountability scores in recent years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/05/28/522436/texas-senate-votes-to-end-staar-shield-school-ratings-from-lawsuits/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Government #HoustonISD #Staar #StandardizedTesting

The Texas Senate passed a bill to eliminate the STAAR test — the state's standardized test for public schools — while also overhauling how schools are rated and limiting legal challenges that have delayed accountability scores in recent years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/05/28/522436/texas-senate-votes-to-end-staar-shield-school-ratings-from-lawsuits/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Government #HoustonISD #Staar #StandardizedTesting

The Texas Senate passed a bill to eliminate the STAAR test — the state's standardized test for public schools — while also overhauling how schools are rated and limiting legal challenges that have delayed accountability scores in recent years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/05/28/522436/texas-senate-votes-to-end-staar-shield-school-ratings-from-lawsuits/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Government #HoustonISD #Staar #StandardizedTesting

The Texas Senate passed a bill to eliminate the STAAR test — the state's standardized test for public schools — while also overhauling how schools are rated and limiting legal challenges that have delayed accountability scores in recent years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/05/28/522436/texas-senate-votes-to-end-staar-shield-school-ratings-from-lawsuits/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #Government #HoustonISD #Staar #StandardizedTesting

The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that the state and school districts use to monitor student learning and teacher performance.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/05/13/521150/texas-bill-to-overhaul-staar-test-clears-the-house-but-faces-a-skeptical-senate/

#Education #Texas #Staar #StandardizedTesting #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature2025

The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that the state and school districts use to monitor student learning and teacher performance.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/05/13/521150/texas-bill-to-overhaul-staar-test-clears-the-house-but-faces-a-skeptical-senate/

#Education #Texas #Staar #StandardizedTesting #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature2025

The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that the state and school districts use to monitor student learning and teacher performance.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/05/13/521150/texas-bill-to-overhaul-staar-test-clears-the-house-but-faces-a-skeptical-senate/

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The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that the state and school districts use to monitor student learning and teacher performance.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/05/13/521150/texas-bill-to-overhaul-staar-test-clears-the-house-but-faces-a-skeptical-senate/

#Education #Texas #Staar #StandardizedTesting #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature2025

The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would eliminate STAAR, the high-stakes standardized test that the state and school districts use to monitor student learning and teacher performance.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/05/13/521150/texas-bill-to-overhaul-staar-test-clears-the-house-but-faces-a-skeptical-senate/

#Education #Texas #Staar #StandardizedTesting #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature2025

EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. “A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states found that California experienced slightly less learning loss than the national average in the four years following the 2020 pandemic. The Education Recovery Scorecard, which […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/edsource-new-stanford-database-tracks-learning-loss-gain-in-california-and-districts-nationwide/

EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. “A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states found that California experienced slightly less learning loss than the national average in the four years following the 2020 pandemic. The Education Recovery Scorecard, which […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/edsource-new-stanford-database-tracks-learning-loss-gain-in-california-and-districts-nationwide/

EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. “A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states found that California experienced slightly less learning loss than the national average in the four years following the 2020 pandemic. The Education Recovery Scorecard, which […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/edsource-new-stanford-database-tracks-learning-loss-gain-in-california-and-districts-nationwide/

EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. “A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states found that California experienced slightly less learning loss than the national average in the four years following the 2020 pandemic. The Education Recovery Scorecard, which […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/edsource-new-stanford-database-tracks-learning-loss-gain-in-california-and-districts-nationwide/

EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. “A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states found that California experienced slightly less learning loss than the national average in the four years following the 2020 pandemic. The Education Recovery Scorecard, which […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/edsource-new-stanford-database-tracks-learning-loss-gain-in-california-and-districts-nationwide/

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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