Posted on 10/13/2022 4:31:16 AM PDT by fwdude
Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
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I know very few that took the ACT, but almost everyone took the SAT.
(Minus inner city students)
Woke studies had nothing to do with it. /s
Nothing to see there, move along
Hey folks look over there, the Pandemic...
True, the SAT is the far more usual standard, but comparable. I’ve read the ACT is more rigorous, and the more academically elite schools prefer it. I opted for the ACT back in the early 80’s.
Tell you what, if you have a kid who can read at grade-level, that’s all it’s going to take to make him a one-eyed king in the land of the blind.
I’d love to read some of the “essays” on these exams. Bet the graders have some funny stories.
Gotcha. I goofed off in high school and just worked crappy jobs for some years after HS. I was more interested in girls, fitness/sports, and partying. I got my act together when I joined the USAF and went to college, after enlistment completion, on the GI Bill.
I guarantee that. :)
It also has nothing to do with government and educators exposing themselves as nothing but paid shills for Pfascists. The kids can't take them seriously anymore.
For a brief period in the early 1990s as a side gig, I worked for Pearson Education scoring ACT tests.
Just from the written answers and essays, it was immediately obvious who had taken their education seriously, and who coasted through school trying to get by with the minimum. From the very first written answer you could practically judge what the rest of the test would look like.
Secondly, the penmanship was another flag. If it looked like it was written by a drunk baboon, the organization of thought and clarity of answer pretty much followed that as well.
Any idea what the heck was going down 30 years ago to cause scores to be so low? This would be just prior to Clinton’s 8 years rain (not reign on purpose).
Agree with other posters here - CRT and woke teaching far worse effects than pandemic.
That ethic is not shared by teachers. Just try talking to one of those illiterates. Their “ethic” is in lifelong indoctrination.
Don’t let your children and grandchildren anywhere near someone with an Ed degree.
Some of us didn’t take teachers seriously back in the 70’s.
Some believe that there was an increase in ACT test taking by City State students that diluted the smart pool
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology...
If only the taxpayers would spend more on education.
That’s really pathetic, especially considering that the ACT and SAT tests were significantly dumbed down several years ago.
My parents instilled a love of reading in me before I even got to public school. Thus I was reading at college level while still in elementary school. I was able to coast through high school as I had already read most of the classics, as well as a lot of books on history, science and current events.
Which is a good thing because my inner city high school was very much "Welcome Back Kotter". My high school classes were dominated by troublemakers, apathetic teachers, and bullying.
Spent four years in the Marine Corps after high school and that was all that was all the "finishing" I needed for a successful life. I am very happy I never went to college, except for a few specific night courses on career-relevant skills that my company paid for.
They recentered their scoring in 1989:
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/has-the-act-ever-changed-the-way-it-scores-its-tests/1902324
meanwhile, Randy Weingarten is taking a luxury vacation in Poland and stopping over in Ukraine for a photo op.
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