Posted on 05/17/2019 9:53:12 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The College Board president behind the recent decision to assign applicants an "adversity score" is the same man who courted controversy pushing Common Core, the national K-12 curriculum standards project that several states adopted, then dropped under pressure from education activists.
David Coleman, the architect of Common Core and current president and chief executive of the College Board, has a controversial history with standardized tests and higher learning. Critics claim Common Core, which was designed to establish baseline K-12 curriculum standards but was derided as a power grab from local school boards, should be seen as a cautionary tale. They also suspect Coleman's latest effort, in his current job heading the company behind the SAT test, is an effort to stay relevant amid questions about the fairness of standardized testing.
"Promotion of adversity scores is the latest attempt by the College Board to defend the SAT against increasingly well-documented critiques of the negative consequences of relying on admissions test scores," Bob Schaeffer, the public education director at FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, told US News & World Report.
The rollout of a new score, which takes into consideration the social and economic background of every student, has put the spotlight back on Coleman and his work in the education field that dates back decades. In a statement Thursday defending the adversity score, Coleman said it can help identify students whose potential can't be fully gauged by raw testing data.
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Figures.
Yet another Rhodes Scholar messing up the world.
Aren’t some schools finally rejecting Common Core, and returning to standardized math education?
This guy should not have a lot of practical credibility left.
Whoever is behind common core should be publicly flogged.
Common core reminds me of the Sci Fi story where smart people are fitted with distracting devices so that everyone is equal. Common core is so unnecessarily complicated, it hampers those that would excel.
Yes, and even the schools that have CC (they get paid money to ‘assist’ in the transition from common sense to anything but) are passing out homework sheets that skirt it. Our local Catholic school has announced, “We do NOT teach CC.” It is thriving. The archdioceses (pl?) around the country are also receiving money to help implement CC.
So now the Common Core guy is now trying his hand at destroying colleges.
Common Core has wrecked a generation of students. I have some experience teaching traditional math. And much of it was based on memorization. That’s a very good thing!
But I can’t follow the confusing way Common Core does math. It’s Rube Goldberg math.
For those under 50 (from Wikipedia):
Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
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If there is no "standardization" in standardized testing, if mere mortals can modify and redact test scores, ultimately all colleges will be full of mediocre students, and the colleges themselves become mediocre.
The Common Core fools do not understand human nature. Kids cannot analyze until they have memorized facts with which to analyze. Kids have a developmental stage which gives them an ability to memorize reams in the early grades. Then their brain begins to allow them to analyze.
When Common Core fails the kids, then the same idiots want to give the handicapped kids they created a push up the educational ladder.But they just are not prepared to handle the work, so they dumb down the curricula.
Could these people be talked into going to the Moon?
It is, of course, a totally bogus argument, which pays a sick--a very sick--game betraying the aspirations of those they pretend to be helping:
See my reply #12.
And every teacher I’ve ever talked to HATES Common Core with a passion.
When Trump was running for president, some teachers I knew who I fully expect to be dems voting liberals, said they were voting for Trump.
Why?
Because he opposed Common Core.
I was floored.
Central planning is bad.
Not surprised. 2 + 2 somehow equals 5.
One’s adversity score is the inverse of one’s privilege score. . . The higher the adversity score, the lower the privilege one has had. This is the first move to disadvantage anyone who is a traditional, family member American citizen.
Should have called it “Non-White score” because its purpose is to disenfranchise Whites.
This “educator” is a self-loathing nitwit.
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