Comment by amluto
3 hours ago
It’s also fraught because schools will spend increasingly large fractions of the time preparing kids for tests instead of teaching them anything.
3 hours ago
It’s also fraught because schools will spend increasingly large fractions of the time preparing kids for tests instead of teaching them anything.
Doesn't this whole story suggest that the aversion to "preparing kids for tests" was wrong? The UC system changed its admissions policies to help kids who weren't prepared for tests, and now they have a bunch of students who don't seem to have been taught anything despite their high grades.
Wasn't this the plot of the Wire season 3 or something?
It is one part of the plot that focuses on inner city schooling in season 4 :)