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"I wonder what happens when the researchers and teachers will get punished for not meeting their >100% performance targets year-over-year."

This is not considered a bug in the system, if we graduate more of them than we need, and as seen in the article cronyism and gang/mafia mentality is rampant.

So in a system built on cheating, the "cooperative" will have their performance targets fixed, and the "non-team players" will be removed.

Superficially the goal of standardized testing is to produce a populace thats real good at taking standardized tests, which is of course a totally useless goal, but its easy to measure. Slightly deeper, the goal of standardized testing is to remove autonomy from teachers as a punishment by forcing them to teach to the test. A bit deeper and the purpose of standardized testing is to encourage corruption. If one party has a political goal of fighting the teachers union, what better long term plan than to force them all to become thugs or leave? The other party likes it also, because who doesn't want an army of thugs?

Nobody wants the kids to learn anything, unfortunately. Sometimes it happens accidentally, but it doesn't matter.




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