What is the big deal? All this means is that the universities will adjust their admission standards for the new scores.
‘advanced mathematical concepts’ being trig.
I was doing calculus in my junior year (11th grade)... and they’re going to dumb it down more?!
this is how you guarantee Americans don’t get those high paying tech jobs...
This reminds me of when Herbert Hoover was elected king. That was in 1885. He didn’t want people to be educated, so he made television sets illegal. He seized 110% of all the televisions, so he got most of ‘em. But then Jimmy Carter seized power and the good old type of education we have today was restored to the USSA.
I got "aviatrix" wrong on the GRE, on the basis of "too obvious". Seems like a regular word to me now ... don't know why I never learned it before my senior year of college.
But you won't catch me campaigning to eliminate "aviatrix" from the GRE!
I thought they already dumbed it down a couple of times of the last 30 years.
Idiotocracy, the first movie that was a comedy and now a documentary.
Sorry to the freeper that said that first but it is so true.
“No one who has been paying attention can doubt the main purpose behind the overhauling of the SAT. Members of certain minority groups perform far worse than average on the exam. This fact doesn’t prevent most colleges from admitting pre-determined levels of minority students under their race-based preferential admissions systems. But the outcomes under these preferential systems (e.g., vast disparities between the average scores of admitted black and white students), unless concealed, subject the systems to much criticism”
Note also the "bottom line". That tells all.
This is reminiscent of Griggs v. Duke Power. That Supreme Court case, in which a black man did what members of his race usually do, i.e., after failing miserably in a job situation, he ran to the courts for redress...and he got it. That set the stage for what we're now experiencing. You see, businesses, told that they could not administer IQ or other ability tests, went to the college degree as a proxy, hence, the explosion in everyone and his brother going to college.
“Difficult” words capture subtleties that simpler words don’t.
American schools chase after mediocrity.
And this has been happening for many years, starting soon after the Department of Education came into existence.
The data is clear - check it!!
They have dumb down the students, so that’s why they have to lower the standards. They keep it up nobody will have a “passing” sat score. That’s their goal, but this will mask it. (I used to think this was conspiracy theory...but we are actually living it. BS covered with a thin candy coating.)
Treating the illusion isn't treating the problem... don't they know that?
Well, I can certainly understand that!
Since division is too complex for math teachers to teach, the kids are allowed to complete division questions with the help of a calculator.
Are calculators allowed for students taking the SAT’s?????
Back in my days in high school in the fifties, there was no such thing as a calculator (except for the Friden 99 key totalizer, which was unaffordable).
So all our math work was figured out with paper and pencil, and many super long hours of homework!
“It’s a roundabout way to put pressure on states that opted out of Common Core,” said Whitney Neal, director of Grassroots at Freedom Works. “If you are legislator from Virginia let’s say, this will put pressure on you obtain material to make your district more appealing especially to homebuyers. SAT averages are often included in realtor information and high school success rate is always a selling point.”
The man known as the "architect" of Common Core has used his new job running the College Board to deal a devastating blow to critics of the national education standards.
The SAT was revamped to align with the Common Core Standards Initiative, the broad language and math standards adopted by 45 states despite growing complaints that it will result in nationalized control of K-12 curriculum. The announcement on Tuesday was made by College Board President David Coleman, who before taking the post in 2012, played a key role in designing Common Core.