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American’s aren’t smart, we just take easy tests

The Brookings Institute released the results from a study of the national test of student math skills. It shows that in the eigth grade test, 40% of the questions addressed first and second grade math skills.

Yikes!

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One Response to “American’s aren’t smart, we just take easy tests”

  1. LuxFX / They Think They're Newsworthy » so hard not to be snarky Says:
    November 19th, 2004 at 8:20 pm

    […] ct, or only if we don’t do the smaller project?” Recall my earlier post about problems with American math testing standards. I didn’t realize it was so bad that […]