Galt's Gulch

More dumbing down of language, courtesy of Common Core

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 1 month ago to Education
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The SAT exam is going to be dumbed down, to make it more rigorous. Excuse me? I think that makes no sense whatsoever, but that is exactly what is going to occur on the new and revamped SAT exam. Removal of vocabulary words because they are too difficult, which is supposed to enhance the minds of students, how?

The lack of any logic in this backwards way to approach education leaves me agog.
SOURCE URL: http://blog.heritage.org/2014/03/16/common-core-changing-sat/

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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 1 month ago
    It's an attempt to make sure they don't have hurt feelings by making that 1600 far more accessible to all... especially since it's not their fault they were too busy f'ing off or being a poser in class to pay attention or doing more important things after school like playing video games rather than that boring homework... Grrr...
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    • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 1 month ago
      You said it! Personally, I wanted to do the best I could. I didn't wish to be a dumb ass. And I liked that competitive spirit to do better than someone else. That's far more desirable than abject apathy.
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      • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 1 month ago
        I always said to myself "If someone else can do it, I can do it, and do it better." Seemed to work fine. Of course, I didn't spend my childhood glued to the boob tube, trying to prove to someone that I was some faux inner-city thug, or trying to one-up the snotball "popular" girls in school... breaks my heart that I missed out on so much... like getting the you-know beat out of me, or becoming a lifelong 3rd shift assistant janitor's junior helper (and shop steward), or the finer education opportunities in prison... -shudder-
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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 1 month ago
    I remember having a discussion with one of my teachers in high school. This would have been about 1980. He said I was fortunate to be graduating soon because the new Department of Education was going to increase standards and require more science courses and more math courses with calculus being a requirement to graduate. That hasn't worked out so well. How far can we lower the bar?
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 1 month ago
    It sounds like they're making the SAT easier, making it a less-useful measure.

    I'm amazed, though, how a rather mundane issue like what should be included in a school curriculum gets politicized. I could pore over any set of school worksheets and find problems with, but why? It seems like a struggle to turn something apolitical into politics.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
    I do not like the concept of common core; I do like the SAT...or at least the old version of the SAT. Actually, now that I think of it, any version of the SAT that is consistently used and which produces a bell-curve of results gives some relative data. What would make that test worthless is to have a large portion of the students hit the 1600 max. The thought that the SAT might be simplified and still result in a bell curve is dismaying, is it not? But at least it is still information. (You could make a conversion factor: eg 2/3 of the New SAT score ~ the Old SAT score.)

    Jan
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