Whatever you do, don't do a better job at teaching. Oh no...just lower the standards. That way the money will keep flowing.

https://www.timesunion.com/new...english-17841120.php

ALBANY — New York will change what it takes for students to reach “proficiency” on state math and English language arts tests, calling last year’s lower scores the “new normal.”

A scoring committee that reports to the Board of Regents said Monday that they must take into account the results of last year’s tests for students in grades three through eight to determine whether schools are showing improvement from year to year. On Thursday, the committee wanted to clarify that they must also reset scores because the tests will have new performance standards.

Last year some schools posted shocking results — in Schenectady, no eighth grader who took the math test scored as proficient. And the scores for the third through eighth grade tests throughout the state were much lower in 2022 than in 2019, a result no doubt of the absence of in-person learning during the first year and beyond of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How to create a generation of people who will ensure their country won’t be any better than a third world nation, if that.

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A scoring committee that reports to the Board of Regents said Monday that they must take into account the results of last year’s tests for students in grades three through eight to determine whether schools are showing improvement from year to year. On Thursday, the committee wanted to clarify that they must also reset scores because the tests will have new performance standards.

Translation: Government and Teachers Union representatives have come to an agreement to lower the grade standards so that bonus money and allocations to districts will continue to flow, in light of the lowered performances which would have caused school district to lose revenue for not meeting the previous goals.

In turn the Union will continue to take some of those funds and continue to provide financial support to the current Governor and D party candidates...

The next time somebody observes all indications suggest people are, for the first time in history, becoming more stupid, rather than more intelligent, one need only point to this as evidence.

Btw: The people doing that stuff aren't liberals. There's nothing in the least bit "liberal" about their thinking--such as it is. Those are leftists. (Aka: "Idiots.")

It's easy to tell the difference. Liberals believe in equal opportunity. Perhaps even to the point of giving the less-advantaged a hand up, but, still: Equal opportunity. Leftists believe in equal outcomes. Even if, perhaps even particularly if, that means hobbling those more able and more willing to excel. Tearing them down.

Another easy way to tell is leftists' solutions to problems nearly inevitably appear to be clearly insane--and more inclined to exacerbate the problem than relieve it.

If this grading philosophy policy works its way into engineering and medical schools, society will collapse sooner than expected.

What an excellent way to avoid accountability for poor job performance!

Scores are drastically down after a year of online schooling. Here's my shocked face.

They've been doing that since I started teaching in the mid 70's. There's always some double-speak reason as to why.