Last year, Florida gave a new standardized writing test to students in various grades and the scores were awful, the Washington Post reports: Only 27 percent of fourth-graders had proficient scores, down from the previous year’s 81 percent. So the state’s Board of Education voted to lower [1]the passing score on this exam. This week, the same board voted to change the system that assigns letter grades [2] to each school based largely on test scores…