Yeah; I went off of memory the first time and got the percentiles wrong.
Yeah that would have been an acceptable excuse... had you not posted the link with the chart you were referencing...
Whoops, you forgot you posted a chart when making the excuse, didn't you?
Your entire point is wrong however that high SAT scores are handed out like candy.
Wrong? That just shows once again that you can't read charts. There were 2 charts comparing old SAT scores and new ones. What do the charts show? Come on; you got your education before the dumbing down, right? If you really try hard, you can still read a chart, right?
The SAT getting “easier” or “harder” is also more or less impossible to measure (you have massive selection biases with people who voluntarily take the test again), and it’s also norms-referenced which makes it mostly all moot in any case.
LOLOLOL When everyone says they're easier and data shows that high scores are markedly more common, you suddenly go to the "Oh, there's no way to really tell. How can anyone be sure about ease? It's moot; let's just move on." LOLOL
If your entire point is that educational performance declined during COVID, of course it did. Turns out COVID was disruptive.
First of all, the first marked dumbing down of the SATs was in 2016, long before COVID. Secondly, it goes way beyond that. I don't know if it was COVID or just coincided with COVID but the recent culture of American education is to slow everything down until everyone passes. And that trend continues long past COVID and strengthens more and more. If a kid fails, it's everyone else's fault now.
Except you can't read charts so how would you know?
The educational system has gotten substantially more stratified but educational achievement has deepened for everyone as well as previously cited - substantial increases in course taking in physics/chemistry/calculus.
Pretty fancy way of saying the SATs got dumbed down, colleges are considering not even using SATs because that makes kids feel stupid, graduation requirements got dumbed down, Ds and Fs are now pass/did not pass (can't use fail, cus that might hurt someone's feelings), American kids are terrible at international education rankings... oh! And all the "Americans" that do compete well are actually Chinese. You got fancy words but they don't get backed up by substance... how so very American LOL
“Overall, teens (ages 15 to 17) spend an hour a day, on average, doing homework during the school year, up from 44 minutes a day about a decade ago and 30 minutes in the mid-1990” -
Love the 90's dontcha? How old are you that you seem to always bring up the 90's in a modern trends debate? LOL Sorry man, if your standard is as low as, "We're better than we were in the 90's," then America's got no business in a modern competition against China.
People with more education are more competent since education builds human capital. It would naturally follow that teachers with vachelors
Are you familiar with the term "bottleneck?" It means that improving an area that is not your limiting factor, such as teacher education, cannot mitigate problems that are your limiting factor, like cultural trends telling American kids that they're perfect the way they are and if they're failing then that means that instead the school is failing.
1 in 20 (5%) of students in China don’t complete middle school but sure -
hat's what you got from reading that?? China, a country embroiled in poverty that couldn't produce so much as a truck in the 80's, now has about as many students as the entire population of the US, with every metric improving, and you think a 5% drop out rate in middle school is the take-away?
Do you know how many STEM students China produces per capita? How about the US? As low as American numbers are, don't forget to deduct the number of foreign (AKA Chinese) students. (Cus honestly if you're graduating useless things like arts and communications majors, you might as well just put them to work right out of middle school.) What's the middle school drop out rate in the US, a supposedly far more developed country? Go check it out.
fwiw, the point on the savings rate is that the low savings rate (but not zero) is largely a function of consumer confidence and that the paycheck to paycheck meme is false. Households save - mostly not in transaction accounts, but they still have savings there
So according to your logic, when the US economy is strong, would you see an increase or decrease in savings? Because it seems to me you want to say that both increase and decrease signal strength. That's not "analysis"; that's called spinning.
You seem to be oddly resistant to the idea that educational attainment and performance has increased with the U.S. over time.
Over what time? Since the 90's? LOL Sure, was never talking about that. Since recent years, nope, you're the only one with the odd resistance here. We all know that America's tests, educational requirments, etc... are all dropping to accomodate failure.
