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Florida’s public university system on Friday voted to approve the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a college entrance exam, making it the first state to accept an alternative to the SAT. Backed by Christian schools and conservative political groups, the CLT was first introduced in December 2015 and is currently accepted by over 250 American colleges…
“The price tag for COVID school closures could top $28T” Add one more grim figure to the toll exacted by disastrous COVID-era school closures: a huge penalty to the lifetime earnings of students forced to suffer through remote schooling, totaling possibly as much as $28 trillion (more than the nation’s entire GDP) over the remainder…
“In the name of ‘equity,’ companies are now ignoring education” Today, at least two-thirds of higher education institutions, including Harvard and Stanford, don’t require the SAT for admission. The American Bar Association recently announced it will drop the LSAT as an admissions requirement for law school. And now, some are calling for the prestigious MCAT to…
“Suppressing the stats that make progressives look bad” What do you do when the data don’t fit your ideology? Increasingly, modern progressives — from the educrats of New York’s Board of Regents to the capitalists running energy giant BP — look to suppress them. BP, reports Reuters, is considering killing its annual Statistical Review of…
“NY Regents are looking to snap education standards out of existence” Parents, beware: State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa and her allies on the Board of Regents are getting set to kill the state Regents exams, the central guarantee that a New York high-school diploma signified real value for well over a century. If parents and…
“Why Catholic schools didn’t fail while public ones did during COVID” In case you missed it, American education is in free-fall. The National Center for Education Statistics released the first national test scores for fourth- and eighth-graders since before the pandemic, and the news is somehow worse than we could have imagined, with catastrophic learning…
“Why all students should take the SAT” It was less than five years ago that I spent a beautiful August afternoon in a poorly ventilated gymnasium full of hundreds of sweaty, nervous teenagers penciling in bubbles for the SAT. But, as much as I hated taking that test, I hate the idea of doing away…
“Silicon Valley firm apologizes after asking applicants for IQ scores” Resume, cover letter… IQ score? A Silicon Valley venture capital firm is in the hot seat after asking job applicants for their scores on an IQ test — even though hiring based on IQ is legally questionable. San Francisco-based Soma Capital, which has invested in…
“Racial-equity warriors are actually hurting the disadvantaged” Here on the home front, there’s another war going on — this one against our kids’ education. Racial-equity warriors are canceling Advanced Placement courses and eliminating honors programs all across America. In some schools, they’re doing away with homework deadlines, attendance requirements and test scores. We’re told these…
“#Canceling Regents exams again is an outrageous gift to NY’s teachers unions” Once again, vested interests are using the coronavirus to attack educational standards and accountability: State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa just seized on Omicron as an excuse to cancel January’s Regents exams. Rosa, echoed by Board of Regents Chancellor Lester Young Jr., claims the…