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Retooling During Pandemic, the SAT Will Drop Essay and Subject Tests
New York Times ^ | January 19, 2021 | Anemona Hartocollis, Kate Taylor and Stephanie Saul

Posted on 01/21/2021 8:12:31 AM PST by karpov

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21 posted on 01/21/2021 9:00:13 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: karpov

“The move comes as the testing industry has been battered by questions about equity...”


The test doesn’t produce the desired equitable results, which is the real reason it’s being dropped. Oddly there doesn’t seem to be the same concern when filling spots on a college’s basketball or football teams.


22 posted on 01/21/2021 9:09:20 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: dsrtsage

Potatoe.


23 posted on 01/21/2021 9:20:34 AM PST by eddie willers
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This is so stewpid I cant’ beleive it!


24 posted on 01/21/2021 9:21:20 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: karpov

There is no need for the SAT. According to Kristen Clarke who will head the U.S. D.O.J. Civil Rights Division, intelligence is dependent on melanin. It therefore follows that the darker you are the smarter you are. The only test you need for admission is the darkness of your skin.


25 posted on 01/21/2021 9:24:03 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: karpov

“Equity” boils down to “hey, stupid people need college degrees too!” And who could argue with that?


26 posted on 01/21/2021 9:26:26 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: karpov

The SAT has been dumbed down so bad that a 1960’s elementary school child could ace it yet the average score today is below 1000 and falling still.


27 posted on 01/21/2021 9:26:39 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Redleg Duke

“The SAT will only judge race, ethnicity, gender and political affiliation.”

Yep. That is where college admissions are at these days. One college after another have all claimed this is their policy.


28 posted on 01/21/2021 9:27:33 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: karpov

Ah—Blame the China Virus instead of the fact that public high schools aren’t teaching students anything.

Very convenient.


29 posted on 01/21/2021 9:52:39 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: karpov

Why stop at the SAT? I am sure the LSAT and MCAT are tools of white supremacists too.


30 posted on 01/21/2021 9:57:32 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: karpov

Evryboddy shood be abel to be a docter or a enjineer.

Its rasist to not beleive this.


31 posted on 01/21/2021 10:11:30 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kid Shelleen

See 31.


32 posted on 01/21/2021 10:11:48 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KarlInOhio

ROR


33 posted on 01/21/2021 10:32:43 AM PST by Organic Panic (Biden is a child sniffing pervert.)
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To: karpov; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

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34 posted on 01/21/2021 10:39:08 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: karpov

I have been in education for more than 30 years. A high school diploma these days in any inner city/low ses area is a 6th grade education when I was in school. The average student walking into my high school has a 3.9 grade level in reading and a 4.0 grade level in math. And they all want to go to college despite the fact that they cannot read, write or do math at grade level and don’t like reading or studying. Most don’t like school. Perrrrrrrfect college candidates.

Now we drop the SAT that correlated highly with IQ and success in college; probably because it is raycis or something. Sure, that will help (/sarc).

College, the new 8th grade.

The Chinese graduate more students with real engineering degrees than we have in colleges and we remove admission standards because they hurt the less abled’s feelings. What could possibly go wrong?


35 posted on 01/21/2021 10:49:42 AM PST by cyberstoic (I )
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To: GOPJ

Admission based on race ratios not merit.


36 posted on 01/21/2021 11:39:52 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: brownsfan

gotta have equity, equity,equity-——equality is way too hard, and has already been trashed as an impossible ideal. Let’s just cut to the chase and reward everybody with stuff they didn’t earn.


37 posted on 01/21/2021 12:17:58 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: dsrtsage

Why test? The colleges just want to $100k+ money.
They really do not care that you are in debt and cannot get a job with the mostly worthless schooling they have.


38 posted on 01/21/2021 3:06:44 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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Hey, it worked so well for k-12 why not extend it to 'higher' education.

Participation diplomas for everyone!

39 posted on 01/22/2021 6:54:24 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Traitor Jo(k)e thinks he is loved by the people. LOL!)
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