[ventana]

Now that we are dumbing down the college pool, won't the value of an education have a diminishing return? There is a systematic attempt to regulate, not only the SAT's, but the content of education itself, so that what is taught in Public High Schools is what is tested on the SAT. One student might attend a private school where the study of the western canon is emphasized; along with the ensuing ability to reason. However, the Public Schools will be educating in group think, and value centered think, and diversity think, and eco-think, and if that is what the test measures, than our bright young educated in the western canon will not measure up. Who then will the willing participants in the social experiment, the Harvards, and Princetons, and Yales, take? Why the social schooling exemplars, nevermind that they are not the truly educated. They will be, nevertheless, the truly socially engineered elite. V's wife.

[shrinkermd]

P>"Now that we are dumbing down the college pool, won't the value of an education have a diminishing return? There is a systematic attempt to regulate, not only the SAT's, but the content of education itself, so that what is taught in Public High Schools is what is tested on the SAT. One student might attend a private school where the study of the western canon is emphasized; along with the ensuing ability to reason. However, the Public Schools will be educating in group think, and value centered think, and diversity think, and eco-think, and if that is what the test measures, than our bright young educated in the western canon will not measure up. Who then will the willing participants in the social experiment, the Harvards, and Princetons, and Yales, take? Why the social schooling exemplars, nevermind that they are not the truly educated. They will be, nevertheless, the truly socially engineered elite. V's wife.

I don't know, but see the other article I posted tonight about the SAT possibly being used in Britain after their "achievement" tests failed. What seems to happen is that without a good test of aptitude or ability, professors have to interview and make the decisions. This is time consuming and not as effective as tests and grades.