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Only one-quarter of one percent of all ACT test-takers earn the perfect composite score of 36, and that select few include Malia Hill of Hawai'i Island and Jonah De Shong of Maui.

Study shows students arent making up what we lost for them from the pandemic-era learning losses. even worse, they are going backwards. among the key findings gains in student achievement fell short of pre-lockdown levels in most elementary grades. standardized testing shows students would need more than four months of instruction in each subject just to catch up. many continue to blame the teachers unions for all of it. critics say the unions went too far and had too much focus and politics and...

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Exist in the admissions process, the least among them which is legacy admissions and, two, standardized testing. because college has become so competitive, many students are engaging in test prep at the eighth grade because their parents can afford it. how do we say, hmm, maybe this student is better than this student -- howard: so the lawyers for civil rights just sue harvard on this question of legacy admissions, the sons and daughters of donors or others who went to harvard in this case. 70% ...

Benefits, who it didnt benefit. the assumption out there is that somehow people of color are benefiting tremendously this law. black population is 6.6%. theres good news happening today, because there was a complaint filed against harvard university going after their legacy program, which 40% of the students at harvard university are there because either their parents went there or theyre a millionaire or billionaire and can by a building. its the beginning of the end of standardized testing, be...

Point to an example of a system, again a state system one that all taxpayers and community members pay into, right? see a massive drop in access from lower income communities and communities of color. they are worried that harvard will slide backwards now and start to look like what harvard used to look like. which was a lot wider, frankly. and so they will be pushing the administration, there have been closed-door meetings, for years now because this moment has been coming. they have been pushi...

Now because this moment has been coming. they have been pushing on legacy admissions, this is why was he harvard and other schools move away from the s.a.t. naacp to get rid of standardized testing, there is going to be a lot of mishmash-ing and reinvention over the next couple of years, we will not fully understand what the impacts will look like for a couple of years time. it will take time. >> can i ask you what you think? you went to harvard while there may be the anxiety that schools could ...

It appears that while our nation’s vast educational establishment was failing America’s youth before the pandemic, the COVID-19 lockdowns provoked a virtual “failure spiral” for a whole generation of America’s young people. It is both a personal and national tragedy.

In its final release of results from last year's exams, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reveals that 13-year-olds' understanding of math dropped significantly.

A new study that says breastfeeding is correlated with higher test scores is the latest example of the limitations of this kind of research.