I am saying that what we regard as the basics changes over time. There was an era when using a slide rule was an important skill to learn for anybody going into serious math or science.. Now it's an affectation. Abacuses, similarly, were once an important thing to know how to use in certain cultures. Now they aren't. Times change.
Massachusetts spends a lot too. I think nearly all the high-scoring states spend a lot. You get what you pay for.
How do you explain anything to anyone who only knows what he reads on the internet?
Serious school violence is, in fact, down. Liberals think it could be down even further, to levels like what we see in European countries that have tighter gun-control, if we took additional steps. But that doesn't change the fact that there has been a lot of improvement in the last couple decades.
Slide rules still work when the computer/calculator breaks and you don't have access to another one.
I think it used to be.
I referenced a number of different tests, all of which show the same overall trend. It isn't just the NAEP test. It's also IQ tests, and military aptitude tests. So, if the stats all tell you something you don't want to believe, isn't that your issue?
And before the last couple of decades, there was almost NO school violence. (I can't speak for big cities, however).
NAEP, a government site, favors common core it pushes it.
I read very widely, and not just on the Internet. If there is something I'm missing, point me to the information.
I like the sports analogy. If you take any individual team in a particular sport, chances are the recent editions of that team are the most talented in its history, in raw terms. For example, the recent Chicago Cubs teams are almost certainly far bigger, faster, and stronger and better at their sport, in absolute terms, than the Chicago cubs teams of the early 20th century. If you time them all in the 100 m dash, or measured their max benchpress and squat, or any other absolute measure, I bet a whole lot of money the modern team would beat the living hell out of the early 20th-century team, and would beat them on the field, too. Yet, those early 20th century teams won championships, and the modern team doesn't. The cubs have gotten much, much better, but all of the other teams advanced even more. In the same way, education in this country has improved, but it improved more in a lot of other countries.
Fortunately, we've had many generations of patriots who, when they were dissatisfied with something in the United States, stuck around and fixed it, rather than moving. For example, those who didn't like slavery, could have gone to pretty much any European country, where slavery had already been outlawed. Instead, those abolitionist stayed here and made this a better country. And, generations later, people who thought women should have the right to vote, could have move to, say, New Zealand, where they already had that right, but instead he stayed here and fought for the right here. And people stayed and fought for racial integration, even though they could've move to Europe where the races were already integrated. This is a great country because liberals stick around and defeat conservatives, and get improvements, rather than leaving for places where the battles have already been won.
What evidence do you see of that?
The NAEP has been tracking this data since 1971. The trend of improvement had shown up before common core was ever even proposed.
Tracking? They are the government and in control of this. The dont want you to know they are dumbing down.
