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Roll Call: Biden’s State of the Union was beyond belief. Just ask voters
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston discusses voter reaction to President Biden’s State of the Union address. Some of the media, working off the same script, seemed to love Biden’s SOTU, praising the president’s atypical delivery, calling him feisty and fiery at every turn. But there is
Do Voters Connect Learning Loss and Grade Inflation?
Inspired by the headlines about elite colleges bringing back their standardized testing requirements (with Brown joining the list last week) we have been focused on issues related to tests and grade inflation. This week, we look at grade inflation through a slightly different lens, analyzing the extent to which voters
Roll Call: Trump’s next test: Go beyond the base
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston writes about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overrule the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, and some challenges from Trump going forward. The exit polls also raised some important challenges for the Trump
How Widespread Is Grade Inflation?
A topic we have been keeping a close eye on in the last several months is standardized tests in college admissions. A key reason many of the colleges chose to reinstate the testing requirement is that test scores tend to be better predictors of academic success than grades alone. It
A Look At The Latest PISA Results
The results from the 2022 PISA tests, released last month, showed that while US scores generally held steady from 2018 in reading and science literacy, the US score in math literacy dropped 13 points. In 2018, students scored a 478 on the math literacy test; in 2022, that score fell
A Look At Past PISA Results
Tomorrow morning, the results from the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will be released. PISA measures the literacy of 15-year-olds in science, math, and reading every three years. Data is reported as a score for each country and as the share of students reaching one of six proficiency