Between "Common Core" and "Advanced Placement," the US system is highly standardized. Teachers are under enormous pressure to teach specific aspects of specific subjects in a specific order, and students are told that their future life chances turn on their ability to pass high-stakes tests:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/#a-commons
This gives rise to many frustrations for teachers and students alike, but nothing got my dander up so much as my daughter's math teachers' testing practices.
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