I think this is more important: The numbers are half a percentage-point different from 2016 — down in English and up in math. Scores didn't really do down, t

I think this is more important: The numbers are half a percentage-point different from 2016 — down in English and up in math. Scores didn't really do down, they stayed the same. Why would one expect them to go up? Kids didn't get magically smarter, schools didn't change. It's more suspicious that the schools got better every year under the previous test.