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Originally Posted by Botnst
The backwash of public demand for improved education is the stupid-ass imposition of "objective metrics". This is how a bureaucracy approves of its own performance. It has little to do with teaching kids.
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Agree--Maryland has continually ranked very high in those metrics, but it's because the teachers are supervised to teach to the test. Education here is not poor, but the real level is masked by the tests and the preparing of the students.