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So... what accounts for the crummy student scores on criterion-referenced tests back in your generation of the 1970s and 1980s? Oh, I remember. Allen Bloom said 1980s students were lazy, dogmatic, mentally ill, suicidal, selfish, uneducable, criminal, and unemployable, A Nation at Risk (1983) condemned low student achievement, and Tipper Gore told us pop culture and music were to blame. Every generation, decade after decade, has been condemned by its teachers with identical vitriol. At least you'd think the elders could come up with original epithets.

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