I think they take the raw test results and apply them to a bell curve. So 1050 is always the average but that could be 50 Percent right or 30percent right for that cohort
A few years back, more like 10 or 15 lol, but anyway there was a mom and pop, Chinese family takeout that was real good, halfway healthy, and we used to order there all the time. Wanna know why I can tell you this today? It's because it impressed me so much. I would go in and pick up whatever we ordered... and they ALWAYS had one of their kids running the cash register. And I'm talking like 5th grade age. Sharp as a tack. All business. I used to come home and tell my wife... those kids will be running Fortune 500 companies 40 years from now.
It starts with good core values early in life. Asians are taught to study hard and work hard to succeed in life.
Education is not “shitty” in America. Compared to some other western countries with systems not as fragmented as ours, it is true we are lagging. The main reason for this is what usually drags our country down, the southern states. Try to understand we do not have national standards, we have national minimums. Federal funding can be as low as 10% of school funding depending on where you live and with even lower state investments. We actually need a uniform curriculum like with Common Core to bring up the laggard states. It goes without saying kids get a better education in blue states than red states. If you compared New Jersey students to Denmark or Japan there isn’t too much difference.
OR NOT. Oregon school performance craters relative to national averages, elementary and middle school math scores rank 6th worst in U.S. https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2022/10/oregon-school-performance-craters-relative-to-national-averages-elementary-and-middle-school-math-scores-rank-6th-worst-in-us.html#:~:text=\-,Oregon school performance craters relative to national averages, elementary and,rank 6th worst in U.S.&text=Published: Oct.,, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
What % of Alabama students take the SAT? low single digits.....says a lot.. teh very few who actually do well in Alabama schools taking it while most do not. That is why that table is not really indicative of what is going on.