Students around the globe earned among the lowest average scores ever in science, reading and mathematics on the Program for International Student Assessment.
Test found 61.8% of all third-graders scored below proficient on the state’s English language arts test.
- UC Berkeley mathematics professor Zvezdelina Stankova warns that some incoming college students are five to eight years behind in math, with basic skills such as fractions becoming a problem even at elite universities. - Stankova says COVID learning loss, grade inflation and years of inadequate preparation leave some students unable to handle calculus, engineering and other demanding STEM courses. - She argues standardized testing such as the SAT can provide universities with an important baseline for determining whether students are academically prepared for rigorous programs. - Stankova warns that AI can become a dangerous academic crutch when students use it to avoid reading, thinking and solving difficult problems themselves. - She…
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AI:The University of Michigan is moving to conceal freshman letter grades from students under the guise of protecting mental health. This decision allows taxpayer-funded institutions to further obscure academic accountability and performance metrics, contributing to the ongoing decline in higher education standards and the push for ideological indoctrination over meritocracy.Open
Peer-reviewed study looked at the results for 100,000 students between 2018-19 and 2022-23.
The declines nearly wiped out gains made in the state exams last year. New York City school leaders promised a review of the results.
Only 44% of children entering kindergarten in Florida are ready to learn, according to a new Early Learning Report released by the Florida Chamber of Commerce Thursday.
Perchance AI By Jim Cardoza When half of graduates receive A’s while increasing numbers of degree holders embrace economic ideas that consistently fail the tests of history and human nature, the problem is no longer merely educational.
The literacy crisis has certainly made its way to elite universities, but it does not begin there.