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Slide In California.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Education: The University of California's slide toward low standards continues. One of its main faculty committees proposes junking the SAT exam.
The university's Academic Council wants the UC Board of Regents to approve this summer a plan to replace the SAT college admissions exam with one that simply tests high school course work.
What's wrong with the SAT test? Well, the students the UC system wants more of -- largely minority students from poor schools -- don't do well on the SAT. This, says UC President Richard Atkinson, is "unfair." In a perfect world, Atkinson says, there should be no "formulas."
Yet, changing tests is nothing more than a backdoor attempt to lower standards. Instead of all students taking the same SAT test, students under the plan would take tests that reflect the quality of their high school curriculum, which in the case of California is too low.
Atkinson's gambit masks academic reality without doing ...
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