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Opinion: It’s becoming impossible to know how your kid is doing in school

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By Ariel Kalil, Derek Rury
| The Salt Lake Tribune
Nearly nine in 10 parents in the United States believe that their child is performing at or above grade level in reading and math. Many, if not most, of them are wrong. Actual proficiency rates among eighth graders are 30 percent in reading and 28 percent in math, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or N.A.E.P. The gap between grades and test scores is particularly pronounced in schools serving higher proportions of low-income students, according to a 2023 study.
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It’s Becoming Impossible to Know How Your Kid Is Doing in School

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By Ariel Kalil, Derek Rury
| Flipboard
OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone In today’s column, I examine a recently heralded victory by OpenAI in using AI to pursue a longstanding unresolved math problem. Headlines about this accomplishment were proclaiming that AI has become some sort of math genius. The truth is a bit more down-to-earth. Though there is much in the …
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It’s Becoming Impossible to Know How Your Kid Is Doing in School Original

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By Ariel Kalil, Derek Rury
| The New York Times
It’s Becoming Impossible to Know How Your Kid Is Doing in School May 26, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Dennis Eichmann/Connected Archives By Ariel Kalil and Derek Rury Dr. Kalil is a professor of public policy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Rury is an assistant professor of economics at Oregon State University. Nearly nine in 10 parents in the United States believe that their child is performing at or above grade level in reading and math. Many, if not most, of them are wrong.
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