Cheers... I'm over-posting to this thread. I feel fairly passionately about education. It's one of those things that I feel is grossly unjust to kids of all s

Cheers... I'm over-posting to this thread. I feel fairly passionately about education. It's one of those things that I feel is grossly unjust to kids of all socioeconomic and aptitude levels. We spend so much money on education but entrenched interests use their louder megaphones to hold kids hostage. A study comes out from the Gates Foundation that tries to tackle some of the education problems head on. It produces some statistically interesting results, but here on HN, I keep reading knee-jerk responses about "standardized testing" from people who apparently didn't even read the attached article. How are we going to solve these problems if no one even bothers to understand our options? Regarding your point - I agree. Any solution would need to account differences in what you referenced as a "variance in 'quality' of student".