Dumb Shit Education "Reformers"

NEVER question the validity of standardized tests, so there MUST be "grade inflation" in the classroom.

And more shit about how our schools are "failing"--or not:

Critics have long said the NAEP is a poor measure of how well 12th-graders do, and the new data could give them ammunition: Even students whose transcripts show they took calculus score only, on average, "proficient" in math.

Loveless noted that the test includes no calculus, which forces advanced students to do math work they haven't done in three or four years.

Education researcher Gerald Bracey said 12th-graders take the NAEP in the last semester of their high school careers, and they have no real incentive to do well. Poor results are "senior slump writ large," he said.