>So according to achievement scores, education’s Golden Era was in the early to mid-2010s.
>But is that the right answer? It’s certainly when American students performed their best, both on test scores and in terms of college attainment. The adults who were in school back then—the youngest Millennials and oldest Gen-Zers, or what some call Zennials—might be considered the Smartest Generation.
As someone who was part of this cohort, I spent basically my entire K-12 career under the standards set by NCLB, and according to this data, it seems to have worked. This seems doubly true when you consider that it was repealed in 2015 and things have been gradually on the decline since then. Why then is it commonly dismissed as a failure whenever it is brought up?
If you go back to archived Reddit threads from years ago, they're almost something of a time capsule. Current attitudes, humor, slang, etc. are all present. What exactly is the value of Reddit, or really internet forums in general, when it comes to being considered a historical source?