Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 25, 2013
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November 26, 2013
Transcript:
Marigold: And what will come of the standardized test you look last week? Phoebe: Nothing'll happen for a while, then one say we'll find out about our percentiles. Marigold: What is a percentile? Phoebe: Dunno. It's, like, a number of some kind. Marigold: Just so long as you are learning.
I remember having to take ever increasing numbers of such tests. Eventually I realized that the results didn’t affect me personally, so I started answering at random. Other students in my classes did the same. Sometime later I heard about how US students fell far behind other countries at right around that grade level.