Just damn.
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Posted on 07/20/2004 8:57:41 AM PDT by KMC1
NEW YORK - A new bill has passed the New York state legislature that would prevent state or city university systems from requiring SAT or other "high stakes" as major criteria in determining who gets accepted.
College officials are urging a gubernatorial veto. Their argument is that it then makes state politicians in charge of admissions policy - as opposed to objective testing standards.
Officials are arguing that the decision on admissions and standards should be left in the hands of the trustees.
The law would directly impact the debate over the use of standardized tests in also determining promotion and high-school graduation.
Some activist groups have been pressuring lawmakers to pass a law lifting the Board of Regents policy requiring high-schoolers to pass five exams in order to earn a diploma. They also wish to halt Mayor Bloomber's controversial use of standardized exams to decide on promotion of third graders.
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let the cronyism begin.
Do away with the whole grade system! :>
And the next trick will be to get colleges to stop having any sort of rating system - if a student enrols, the student gets a degree...
Kool, man. Like, wow. Dydn't want t& learn them numbers or period chart, anyway.
The dumbing down of America continues unabatted.
If some kind of admissions standards are dropped, New York Universities might as well have diplomas printed on a roll that students just tear one off when they leave.
Bring back corporal punishment. It will solve most of the problems.
Worked for Chelsea Clinton.
I see this as a direct assault on home-schoolers.
Just damn.
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| prevent state or city university systems from requiring SAT or other "high stakes" as major criteria in determining who gets accepted.
The only solution is to substitute subjective criteria like grades, which we can control. If we allow these male children to be judged by machines that read their answers directly, there's no telling how high they might score. Over 30% of last year's entering freshman class consisted of these males who somehow got through the screen. The drugs didn't take, their parents schooled them on the side, they didn't point their fingers at any other kids and say "bang," so we couldn't even have them arrested. It's obvious now that the only way to keep men out of the middle class in the next generation is to limit the selection criteria for college to those things that are firmly under the control of the K-12 Education Corps. |
Gah...thanks for the catch.
They might as well drop them since most schools are in an intellectual tailspin anyway. I tutor high schoolers in math who get all A's and B's and then crash and burn on the PSAT and SAT. These kids are literally clueless. They not only don't know most of the grade level content they should know but they have no idea of testing strategy.
When I tutor home schoolers, however, it's all good. These kids work hard and really want to understand the concepts. Their parents work like dogs too.
In another decade or so, home schoolers will just take over all positions of real power in the country. They'll be the only ones who can figure out a 15% tip in their heads.
Marching Moron Alert
Any private college that implements this ought to hear from its alumni.
We have to hit them in the pocketbook to get their attention.
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See, there are still men getting into college. We just can't have this. We drug the little buggers, we shunt them off into slow-learning classes, we eliminate recess and then expel them when they fidget in their seats, we get rid of all the male teachers so there is no one on the whole campus but the janitor who will give them a break, and after all that some of them still beat girls on these damned standardized tests.