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  • The war on standards — dumbing down the SAT

    03/09/2014 6:08:40 PM PDT · by prairiebreeze · 44 replies
    Powerline ^ | March 9, 2014 | Paul Mirengoff
    The College Board is once again altering the SAT. According to the Washington Post, the SAT’s writers appear to be doing two things: changing what they test and making the test easier. To me, it sounds as if the SAT will be made easier largely by changing what it tests. For example, the Post says that students will no longer be expected to know “difficult, lesser-used vocabulary words” and “advanced mathematical concepts will disappear from the exam” (my understanding is that truly advanced mathematical concepts do not appear on the current exam). --snip-- No one who has been paying attention...