Perverting the SAT

MrEdCo update ^ | 7/5/02 | Julie M. Quist

[hedgetrimmer]

Gosh darn it all! These people never give up! Many parents, who are graduates of these dumbed down programs are so brainwashed they don't know the harm they are doing to their children, and our country by accepting this nonesense as the advancement of education. Gosh darn it all!

[Salman]

The SAT Board is also dropping the entire SAT analogies section of the test because of criticism that word analogies "are not taught in school." The word analogies are being dropped because they measure aptitude, not achievement.

The ability to grasp analogies (without being explicitly taught) is a measure of general intellegence.

[attagirl]

Chas. Murray in the July 3 issue of the WSJ made some excellent points about the new SAT:

1. political pressure will be brought to bear if the discrepancy continues or grows in the black/white scores

2. might be ok in math/science, but in social sciences and humanities it'll spread TROUBLE (too Eurocentric, too this, too that) and may actually serve to degrade the curriculum

3. Minority kids more often go to schools that don't do a good job of teaching content

4. No way for an admissions ofcr to pick out the bright students from the ones that get A's for all the wrong reason

5. White students in rural schools with a dearth of advanced courses and minority students from "easy A" schools will both suffer.

6. In fact, good schools will become even more important. The poorer student will suffer the most.

Salmon, I think the fact that this happened at the same time the Supreme Ct. ruled favorably on vouchers will serve to hurt everyone.

Well, everyone...we'll do what we can in our own little sphere of influence. Thanks for caring!

[attagirl]

what does bttt mean?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

Thanks for the ping
bttt = bump to the top
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[CWRWinger]

Please forward to your do-nothing Board of Ed members

I'm not sure they know how to read well enough to get through this article. Their attention span may also be too short.

[Osinski]

The new federal K-12 curriculum requires little more than minimum competencies in knowledge-based learning.

Thereby ensuring "no child left behind", for a relatively small taxpayer contribution. How noble.

[CWRWinger]

for a relatively small taxpayer contribution

It's not a small contribution, it's a rip-off. If you know of someone who works for the public schools, ask them about all the 'new programs' public schools 'try out' every year. It will make your head spin. They waste incredible amounts of our money on 'junk education programs'.

[Osinski]

I was attempting to be facetious with the "relatively small" euphemism. In fact, it's relatively large. We are paying out the wazoo for big government and all the waste and corruption and decay that accompanies it.

[CWRWinger]

I just heard a report this morning that 'science' books will have to be rewritten now that this so-called 16 million year old skull has been 'found'.

All I hear is the sound of cash registers ringing at the school text book companies. Now all the text book salesmen will show up at the school boards' doors wanting more orders.

I can almost hear their pitch, "You don't want any child to be left behind now do you? The science books we sold you last fall are obsolete due to this amazing discovery." (sarcasm intended)