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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

How to get Moar Edumacation for Your Contry

... just do what the UK did - blast spending into orbit! After all, look what it did for test results!


The mind-blowing thing here is how ham-handed this all is. Test scores nearly tripled in this time frame? Are you kidding me? This just screams grade inflation. They didn't even bother to try to conceal it. Someone (or a whole lot of someones) were getting bonuses based on test scores.

Personally, my favorite is the 33% jump in boys' scores in the last few years.

H/T: UK Housing Bubble.
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2 comments:

  1. Secular Apostate2:06 PM

    Well, the fact that one can now take A-levels in Film studies, Sport studies, Travel and Tourism, Leisure studies, and the like probably hasn't hurt, either.

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  2. Dean7:36 PM

    And dig the traditional gender-based color reversal. I feel smarter and more enlightened just by looking at that chart.

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