At the same time, American education systems were ostensibly in a similar crisis, as detailed in the U.S. ... The College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) declined from 1963 to 1980, with average verbal scores falling over 50 points and average mathematics scores dropping nearly 40 points. ... Systems thinking means optimizing the entire system rather than just changing one area. ... George Westinghouse High School in New York initiated a quality improvement process that decreased the dropout rate from 7.8 percent to 5.3 percent compared to the district average of 17.2% despite lo...

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