Tuesday, September 23, 2025

American students are getting dumber

I favor excellence at the top, and I think detracking math education is a mistake. But broadly speaking, in the N.C.L.B. era of accountability at the bottom, all students were improving! In the post-N.C.L.B. era, the best students are doing okay and the weakest students are in crisis.

Posted by oneironaut at 10:45 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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So No Child Left Behind was working (measuring output)... and Americans just ended it. "You can't improve what you don't measure" ...

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That is the goal.

Adults just smart enough to push the buttons to run the machines but too stupid to see the massive redistribution of wealth up to the oligarchs.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-23 11:38 AM

Gosh... it couldn't be because we can't get qualified teachers due to pay and Republican attacks, schools are hugely underfunded especially in minority areas, and classes sizes continue to grow...

It must be because we got rid of No Child Left Behind...which pulled funds from schools that need it most.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-23 01:02 PM

The more educated people are, the more they vote Democrat.

www.google.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-23 01:14 PM

Nothing that teaching them that Cankles ---------- won the 2020 election and posting the ten commandments in every classroom won't fix.

Throw in a bunch more books, words and images to ban and we will be #1 in no time!

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-23 03:10 PM

People who embrace a universe of "alternative facts" are not serious about education. Indoctrination, yes; education, not so much.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-23 03:15 PM

I think we should make it easier for American born students to go to medical school. Put a pause on accepting foreign students. That's putting America first for a change.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-22 03:35 PM

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-09-23 03:20 PM

I think we should make it easier for American born students to go to medical school.

Oh absolutely!

I've always said we should make it easier for dumb people to become doctors.

What could possibly go wrong?

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 03:35 PM

---- Charlie Kirk

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-23 07:06 PM

Funny that ------- lying fake ----- ---- Jeff thinks a Bush program is the ----.

You're a ------- clown, MAGAT scum.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-23 07:07 PM

Well with parents like ballwasher, boaz ect is it really a surprise?

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-24 11:26 AM

To borrow a gun-issue admonition, It's the #%?! cellphones and the built-for-clicks mass media they access 24/7 through them, stupid! They turn people into vain, somnambulist dullards.

#11 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-09-24 02:27 PM

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