This just in: approximately half of America's students scored below the national average on standardized tests in 2016.

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iamnikki · 31-35, F

Probably because teachers teach for that test. They don't teach how to understand concepts.

33person · 26-30, M

True, but given a large set of data, it is not unusual at all for half the data to fall below the mean.