'Social and Emotional Learning' and other nonsense responsible for dismal test scores

U.S. education test scores have become embarrassingly bad. The latest results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) are in, and the United States scored below average, as usual. American 15-year-olds performed worse in science this year than they did in 2012 (the last time the test was given), had stagnant scores in reading, and came in 31st place in math out of the 35 industrialized nations that took the test.

The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss blames the dreadful test results partially on “reformers.”

“In fact, U.S. students have never done well—not in the history of international tests, including when the American public education system wasn’t under attack by reformers as it is now,” Strauss wrote. She also excuses the dismal scores because, according to her assessment, “Many critics say [the PISA test] is flawed.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/310362-social-and-emotional-learning-and-other-nonsense-responsible