If they’re not ready, don’t let them in.
What’s the problem?
Confirms it. The SAT is RACIST!
“The scores can and must change.”
Sounds like a plan is in the works to try to get some easier questions on the test so the scores improve.
What isn’t grim?
Here’s a quick lesson in how to raise scores.
Throw out all fancy-dancy, education school ideas on education.
Find 1950’s textbooks on math, English, history, and government.
Use those and require memory work, home work, and tracking.
Your scores will sky rocket.
I’d put my high school diploma up against the average BA, today. To say nothing of the 4 years of Marxist claptrap.
That is one of the things that bothers me about all the self esteem garbage. If you can't functionally read, write, and compute mathematical problems, you know it. What does that do for your self esteem?
My daughter is a freshman in High School and I want to get her into an SAT prep course this summer, it’s never too early.
We have been, for decades.
Did you ever notice they never report the results by “public” schools, Private schools and Charter schools? I wonder why?
Two words: Teachers’ Unions.
Minority participation rates for taking the SAT meet or exceed their numbers in the general population.
The second graph is more telling and closely follows the stats in the “Bell Curve” IQ testing book by Charles Murray.
I did find it interesting that asians have slightly better academic achievement even though more whites have completed the so-called “Core Curriculum”.
Even with a dumbed-down SAT (the test has changed a lot in the last 10 years), expect to see little improvement in SAT scores unless we get a huge increase in Asian students. You could attribute results to work ethic and the relative level of cultural reinforcement or you can ascribe to immutable innate traits. The numbers don’t lie.
Thus the percentiles don't mean much. It's totally possible that just as many qualified students who are motivated to go to college are doing well. My SAT prepping experinece (I did that until 2004) was that the top students were doing even better than they used to. They have to because they're competing with unqualified minorities for those admissions.
I suspect that the social engineers would like to get rid of the SATs and ACTs, just as they did IQ tests. The statistics point out too many inconvenient truths. JMHO
“The world needs ditch diggers, too.”
Kids need to learn about RAP music, how to kill rich people, how evil white nazi hispanic white tea party monsters kill and eat minority babies and how Obammy saved everyone from the BushChenyHaliburtonIraq War.
It's time to rethink the whole system and replace it from the outside-in.
This article mentions that 15.6% of African-Americans met the standard, but it doesn’t seem to mention anything about what percentage of white people met the standard. Why is that? What about Asians? Is there some reason they’re not telling us everything?
These scores must exclude Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.