Dummying Down the State Standards

[Rose Moore]

I have been saying this for years on The Rose Moore Show.....Nevada is
sooooo guilty of this.

Why is this effort so important? Here’s what Duncan said three days
ago at the National Press Club:

“What we have had as a country…[is] a race to the bottom. We have 50
different standards, 50 different goal posts. And due to political
pressure, those have been dumbed down….”

“When children are told they are ‘meeting a state standard,’ the
logical assumption for that child or for that parent is to think they
are on-track to be successful. But because these standards have been
dummied down and lowered so much in so many places, when a child is
‘meeting the state standard’ they are in fact barely able to graduate
from high school. And they are absolutely inadequately prepared to go
to a competitive university, let alone graduate.

“And so we have to stop lying to children. We have to tell them the
truth. We have to be transparent about our data. We have to raise the
bar so that every child knows on every step of their educational
trajectory what they’re going to do.”

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