de-professionalizing the teaching profession, reducing the number of teachers available, the lack of welfare and other resources to help pull students out of poverty and thus out of the trap of just giving them a phone or ipad to watch content of off.
Because US schooling has only ever had the goal of cranking out capitalist labor drones and we're kinda tired of it and the billionaires are split on whether or not they're gonna want the labor drones around anymore anyway
The test scores are not tracking proficiency in new tech, it’s measuring old tech.
This is an incredibly problematic statement I made; testing and what it measures is very contentious .
But I think the testing has not caught up to the shift in daily habits.
the tests are not measuring the kids' abilities to sit down and watch 10 hours of short form content straight, or copy paste problem sets into Claude
So true!
Thank you
That’s the best part of saying things that don’t mean anything, you can just pretend you’re extremely profound
What, exactly, are you talking about?
I’ll try to explain my thinking.
I’m familiar with how standardized testing is biased against certain school populations. They are targeted towards an upper middle class college prep culture and requires a way of thinking and schooling that has nothing to do with raw skills.
In short: the wording of some questions and exercises is confusing unless one is drilled and practices these.
So historically, low income schools had a double problem in their testing: funding and no prep for the very opinionated questions.
But these new trends occur in all types of schools with different funding. It’s a cultural shift across all socioeconomic groups. The students relate less well to the questions, no matter rich or poor. And it started before AI.
So one can conclude either there is something wrong with the students only. Something is wrong with the tests, or a combination.
I think these tests are showing a shifting way of thinking and interacting in younger people.
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