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Politics● Low5d ago · Nov 2, 2026, 12:30 PM

Exit exams out, mediocrity in: The decline and fall of US graduation standards

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We can measure whether students can multiply and whether certain instructional practices helped them do it. But how do we measure global citizenship? We can’t, and so anything goes.

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