Sorry, but. The results of student achievements tests are not outcomes. They are outputs. The salaries of the students after they graduate and their satisfaction with the work they are doing are the outcomes.
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Those aren't even SATs. SAT scores have declined. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CaptureMurray2-e1442927840439.jpg …
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Not sinking but the gap is growing in achievement compared to East Asia countries, like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan.
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52 percent of American adults are functional illiterates.
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But who would educate the masses without public schools?
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Not any number of completely free resources on every topic to be found on the internet, lol
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For real though. What is the top score on the test? Where did you find that 52% stat?
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“90 Million US Adults Called Barely Literate,” Boston Globe, September 9, 1993: “Nearly half of all adult Americans read and write so poorly that it is difficult for them to hold a decent job, according to Blumenfeld, Samuel; Newman, Alex (2015-04-14). Crimes of the Educators
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And there are succesively more recent articles talking about how the literacy hasn't changed in 10 years. It's not as though things have gotten better.
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I’m with you, I just didn’t want to cite Wowzers Permanente on twitter when this ever comes up in real life.
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Without the percentage of kids taking the SAT, the graph makes no sense.
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About 3.5 million students graduate from high school each year in the USA. About 1.7 million students take the SAT each year... so ~48% of students take the SAT. I'm sure I'm missing something, and am hoping you can help me out: Why is this relevant?
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If a smaller percentage of students took the SAT in 1998 than in 2016, then the decline of average scores doesn't mean the decline of the US educational achievement as measured across all students, not just those who took the SAT.
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Yes, only bout half as many kids took the SAT and the ACT in 1998 as in 2016: http://www.fairtest.org/sites/default/files/ACT-SAT-Annual-Test-Takers-Chart.pdf …
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In contrast, the US population increased only about 20% during this period. To be fair, one needs to look at the population of 17-year-olds only, but even with these crude numbers you can see my point.
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At the same time: as 48% of students are now "straight A" students, you can see why more students would be taking the SATs as well. In 1998 2.8 Million students graduated high school. 65.6% of them went on to attend college... I can't find data on how many took the SAT.
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Wait, you gave it to me... 1.1 Million SAT test takers. So 39% of students took the SAT.
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@wef above all smaller and less diversehttps://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1033575958073102336?s=21 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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