More recently, critics of high-stakes testing have argued that the effects of such testing are largely negative dilution ("dumbing down") of the curriculum, teaching to the test, undue pressure on both students and teachers, and distraction from the real purposes of schooling.
Like many classic humor anthologies, it's largely dated and dumb, aside from some bits that are hilariously mean.
While Temple's A-listers make huge claims for the Clash's radical influence (Johnny Depp has the nerve to deliver his spiel while in Pirates gear), today the band appear largely remembered for dumb slogans ("Sten guns in Knightsbridge" etc) and posing: they're unmatched as pouting narcissists.
Initially, we're given a primer on the mere plot of "The Tempest," largely by means of dumb show.
Getting what a friend of mine calls "the good hormones," instead of those that cause postpartum debilitation, is largely a matter of dumb luck.
There, in the face of a society that largely regarded the deaf as dumb and even retarded, he studied for 10 years, rarely returning home.
As an interesting overview in a recent Wired issue made clear, the grid was cobbled together in ad hoc fashion over the last century, and is largely one-way, mechanical and dumb.
Really, you think women are that dumb?" The presidential race, which has largely played out in nine swing states, is suddenly showing signs of expansion.
Mr Obama always considered this a "dumb" war, and events have proved him largely right.
The elder Pearman went on to further say that "she sometimes says some dumb [stuff]." When the mini-controversy broke, Raven-Symone initially remained largely quiet.
