Posted on 03/28/2022 8:03:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What are you giving up for Lent? California State University is giving up academics — at least where standardized testing for admission is concerned.
The school’s Board of Trustees issued the decision Wednesday.
Due to the pandemic, CSU had temporarily axed ACT and SAT considerations. Now it’s been made permanent.
Why would a school terminate tests which determine how good a student is at school in order to decide whether they should be let into a school that doesn’t let everyone in? Well, maybe the school lets everyone in. But according to CSU acting Chancellor Steve Relyea, it’s about leveling the playing field. He made that clear to CBS News:
“This decision aligns with the California State University’s continued efforts to level the playing field and provide greater access to a high-quality college degree for students from all backgrounds.”
Down with stress:
“In essence, we are eliminating our reliance on the high-stress, high-stakes test that has shown negligible benefit and providing our applicants with greater opportunities to demonstrate their drive, talents and potential for college success.”
If someone has “drive, talents and potential for college success,” they’d presumably do well on tests. Then again, maybe doing well on tests is no longer necessary for college success:
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That may only be fair, since university newcomers won’t necessarily have been previously required to garner good grades:
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As for the SAT, the test itself has undergone adjustment. In May of 2019, RS Editor-At-Large Kira Davis explained:
Typically, we think about this idea in terms of the rich shutting out the poor, but a new strategy for judging SAT scores throws the old stereotype out the window. In this newest scheme to “even the playing field” the College Board (which oversees SAT testing) has decided they will add a new “adversity score” when grading their college entrance exams. The intention is to add points to the grades of students who come from areas that score higher on the “adversity” scale. It will take into account crime rates, poverty rates and property values.
In education, it’s a new day. Meritocracy is, well, old-school. As such, it’s not earning merit with cutting-edge experts.
Some of those, evidently, sit on the California State University Board of Trustees. The vote to sack the SAT and ACT was unanimous.
Standardized test scores can still be used for placement in subjects such as math, but that’s on the move, too:
A Major News Outlet Asks if Math is Racist
https://t.co/YxxOsvu8wd— RedState (@RedState) December 10, 2021
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— RedState (@RedState) August 18, 2021
Purely going after money. Dumbing down education for cash to keep it going. That’s what it’s all about. “Higher” education indeed.
“A Major News Outlet Asks if Math is Racist”
Obviously. It’s also terribly sexist.
In other words, white males need not apply.
It’s also about ensuring a permanent liberal economic advantage. While their children are learning a 1920’s style curriculum, where they are still learning Greek and Hebrew, they want our children to have kindergarten stretched out for 12 years.
I bet their degrees have really sky rocketed in value.
We’re all giving up having a decent country
That’s OK - I have permanently abandoned hiring California State University graduates...so it all works out. :)
Here’s your degree I mean roll of toiletpaper.
and yet, a uni today said it was going BACK to SATs...
It’s Official: California State University Has Permanently Abandoned Standardized Testing
Whatever it takes to dumb down he population. Ignorant and dumb people are more gullible and easier to control.
Meanwhile, MIT has reinstated them.
Reminds me of the Sanford and Son program in which Fred Sanford needs dental work but demands a White Dentist work on him because the Black Dentist probably got his license without really qualifying for it.
Ditto Rose-Hulman, son's alma mater. Rochester is still optional. Choose wisely.
Do not go there for an education. Do not accept their offering or their product. Let the enrollment decrease to zero while they stew in their fetid juices.
2+2= whatever you want.
You just sign on the dotted line for college aid money that will put you in forever debt while we administrators get 6 figure salaries.
Who cares. Pull the plug on subsidized tuition payments. All loans are guaranteed by the universities. no public funding of any of this crap. then they can do what they want. There are only so many guys who will pay $4 million for a masters degree in bikini inspection.
Just think. We’ll have college graduates who can’t read, do math, dumber than a sock full of rocks.
Baloney,I’m sure a lot of very smart people will still graduate from this college. This is about a test they take in high school.
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Salami. So, WHY do they take them in high school and why is CSU abandoning something that was taken in high school? Also, today MIT decided to start using these tests for admissions again. No baloney.
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