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Yes, yes. Education is multifaceted in its consequences. Merit depends upon objective testing. Common culture and high trust society depend in large amounts up
by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Yes, yes. Education is multifaceted in its consequences. Merit depends upon objective testing. Common culture and high trust society depend in large amounts upon education and schooling. With the quality of schooling available, shortage of teachers and quality teaching personnel due to abuse and low salaries, political interference with teachers handling their own material, religious indoctrination in charter schools, and the amount of students requiring remedial classes in college. Of course, more data and parameters can be considered, but I don't think anyone can consider the broad state of secondary and primary education in the US as "healthy" or "improving."
- brnaftr361 4y agoI don't think you can objectively test. When you do test you're making a singular data point that doesn't reflect ability, necessarily, but instead a coincidence of factors at a given point in time. The data point is arbitrary, even if the test is scored against the distribution. Take, for instance, a FT-working non-trad that scores above the mean. The mean who predominately consists of students who are FT-students. Should some respect not be paid to the considerable handicaps suffered by the non-trad? How do you even begin weight that? Of course this is multiplied a million times over in several dimensions.