[RKV]

“The educational establishment may actually have more to fear from” achievement tests. Yep. Either you get the calculus problem right or you don’t.

[gusopol3]

you know, thinking about it, that may be the value to the educational establishment, as a kind of "fail-safe" that you wouldn't be able to predict by statistics. I know he's gone through several scenarios of types of students that may combine mediocre/poor GPA's with high SAT's, but the SAT in and of itself does, on an individual transcript, catch the eye. My kids have had very liberal teachers, who, contrary to my day when teachers were more or less expected to check their attitudes at the door, have been advocates for political and social positions. However, I continue to see goodwill toward my kids in almost all, despite some pretty direct evidence that they don't share the ethos of the classroom discussions. On an individual, rather than statistical basis, educators of goodwill could be excused for seeing it as one more chance to enable a kid to reach their potential.