True or false? School is tougher now
27th May 2011
Lileks isn’t impressed by modern education.
School ends in June and starts in August — that’s just wrong. But since they’re packed in the classroom longer, that must mean more learning, right? The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment says high school grad exams are more or less flat: Math scores are lackluster, there’s a 1 percent hike in reading, a commensurate drop in writing, and a 2 percent drop in correctly spelling the word “commensurate.”