John Stossel
“But there is good news, said the state school’s superintendent: South Carolina is seeing great progress in some areas. “We are ranked No. 1 in the country,” she bragged, “on improvement on SAT.”
That’s great. But when you’re ranked at the bottom, improvement doesn’t mean much, and South Carolina, even after its “No. 1 improvement” is still last among states. SATs don’t make for perfect comparisons because states have different participation rates, but South Carolina’s participation rate is about average, and yet its students perform well below the average.
That’s not good. Yet the superintendent said, “We are making tremendous progress in South Carolina, and we’re very proud.”
In government monopolies, that’s how bureaucrats think.”
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Jenny Hatch