The Issue: How tests in place before Common Core were not a true measure of students’ abilities.
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Joel Klein’s column, “The Good News In Lower Test Scores,” (PostOpinion, Aug. 7) says: “For years, states around the country dummied-down standards to make it look as if students were more prepared for success after graduation than they actually were.”
He claims to be so relieved because now we’ll be able to build the kids back up based on honest evaluations of their progress. He is one of the key players responsible for that dumbing-down. Ask any teacher, especially in New York City’s high schools.
Jeff Ludwig
Brooklyn
The Common Core test results for New York City students should scare everyone. The teachers union and the mayor should be shamed by these results.
While we do not expect all children to perform at the same level, their under-achievement is stunning.
Parents deliver their children to the schools and their teachers with the expectation that they will be educated to the best of their ability.
These results can be viewed as a crime against these children.
A generation of children will be tossed into society unprepared, because their potential was under-served.
Phil Serpico
Queens
I wrote op-eds for The Post 13 years ago about the need for educational reform. That means the legions of children who entered the public-school system in kindergarten have just completed 12th grade, entirely immersed in the “rotten status quo.”
That description is far too benign. The utter corruption produced by the nexus of Democratic politicians and the education unions that fund them is the real problem.Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Fla.