It is being adjusted to accommodate Commie Core outcomes. Commie Core, where students are basically just sitting in groups reading a few pages and then answering questions about what they read, is the "new" teaching technique. The teacher just stands off to the side for most of the period. She does not explain stuff, point stuff out, show stuff, etc. Just hands out the handouts. This parody of education, designed to produce worker bees for Microsoft (Bill Gates is a major contributor to the program and a major proponent of it,
surprise!) and other mega-companies, does not prepare kids for the SAT as it exists today. So, mega-pressure on the company producing the SAT to conform it to Commie Core outcomes. No mysteries here.
DUMB-da-DUMB-DUMB!
Common Core does have it's good points. My bride is a teacher, and she has been horrified that math is NOT taught in elementary schools. CC will at least make sure that doesn't happen.
You can't teach high school geometry if the student has had no exposure to things like multiplication without a calculator.