{"id":399148,"date":"2025-11-23T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:04:11","slug":"dishonesty-of-school-dashboard-findings-shown-by-ucsd-debacle-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399148\/","title":{"rendered":"Dishonesty of School Dashboard findings shown by UCSD debacle \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cUCSD report stunning, revealing\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/14\/stunning-report-on-unprepared-ucsd-students-points-to-larger-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 14<\/a>), \u201cBasic math a struggle for UCSD freshmen\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/15\/uc-san-diego-a-giant-in-science-is-struggling-with-freshman-who-cant-do-basic-math\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 15<\/a>) and \u201cCalifornia School Dashboard releases ratings for county\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/13\/where-do-san-diego-county-schools-excel-and-where-do-they-struggle-heres-what-new-state-data-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 13<\/a>): The first two articles tell the sad truth about the complete lack of math ability of many students at a prestigious university and the California School Dashboard story tells a different story. In the Dashboard story, more than 75% of county students scored above average or average in math. And in the college and career readiness categories, relatively few students were found to be unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>I think there was something in the UCSD report that talked about grade inflation. Maybe we are living in Lake Wobegon, where everybody is above average, and not San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>I can now feel a bit better about myself even though I had the highest failure rate trying to teach math at a local high school. I could not teach algebra to students who could not do basic arithmetic. I tried explaining that to our principal when she asked me why so many students were failing my class.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allen Stanko, Alpine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cUCSD report stunning, revealing\u201d (Nov. 14), \u201cBasic math a struggle for UCSD freshmen\u201d (Nov. 15) and \u201cCalifornia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-399148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115599158321207202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}