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[!summary]Florida is considering a bill that would eliminate standardized testing requirements for high school graduation, despite declining national test scores. Critics argue this could worsen the “honesty gap,” where grade inflation hides students’ true academic deficiencies. Without reliable testing, it will be harder to measure student progress and identify effective educational strategies.
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over the past few decades, test scores have gone down while grades have gone up. This issue, which predated the pandemic, is known as “the honesty gap.”
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College professors — even at elite schools — have been raising concerns about their students’ lack of reading comprehension for the past few years. This is deeply unfair to America’s children, who deserve to be equipped with critical thinking skills, especially since understanding what is true in the age of social media is ever more challenging.
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