[gilbetron]

1. Test scores have increased 2. Simpson's Paradox - we are educating a far great % of young people then we used to be, so we're pulling in disadvantaged kids that would've been left out of the education system, or simply left out of testing. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-average-isnt-good-en...

A parallel is when I looked into home births versus hospital births when my wife was pregnant. The statistics of home births crushes hospital births in terms of outcomes. But that's because only healthy women who don't have complications are in the home birth category. Hospitals must admit anyone that shows up in labor, and must handle any negative situations.

Schools now handle so many more kids than they used to, and try to meet the challenge. They are failing because the challenge is too great given the funding, not to mention the corruption of the bureaucracy that inflates administrations.

[rayiner]

But even the chart disaggregating scores by race shows that within each group test scores barely went up since 1990. Meanwhile, inflation adjusted per student spending has increased 30% since then.