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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

207 points · 414 comments · vinni2

  1. niemandhier · · focus · HN ↗
    While kids practice the skills of the 21st century, testing got stuck in the 19 hundreds.

    I see kids train edge AI models, built things using coding assistants and discuss post-modern philosophy.

    I see the same kids struggle to write structured interpretations of 1950s texts they have no emotional connection to.

    Kids are worse in orthography, handwriting, and reading stuffy texts from front to end, but they are so much better in a plethora of skills that did not exist 20 years ago.

    1. reedf1 · · focus · HN ↗
      Kids are not training LoRas without a big budget. I fought for $5 from my parents, I could write C for free.
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