I neither approve nor disapprove of the changes n SAT score reporting. I understand the reasoning, but it's difficult to get excited when one score representative of very little is change to another score representative of very little.
No idea, but his ideas didn't seem to hurt.
I thought we were talking about the SAT. When did that become objective?
socialists like Dewey have advocated public support, social support, political support, and tax support for education under their watchful eyes, so we should expect gains in literacy no matter how we measure such a thing, but it seems (non-objectively) reasonable to me that it has been an enormously expensive tactic..... compared to what private educational efforts used to due with practically no money.
wow 70% literacy with no public cost.
why shouldn't we expect 99% literacy from a minimal public project focused on the 3Rs. But no, we get collapsing standard expectations and gratuitous graduations and certificates for "Being There".
Which triggers me on may fav philosophy text, made into a movie, about socialist cultures totally played out in the TV-o-sphere..... including our mass-media political "reality":
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/
Education today has that same quintessentially socialist "reality".
And yah.... I remember taking the Iowa Basic Skills test in 5th grade. I was the class dunce, the son of an immensely popular college prof who had fled town in a scandalous affair with the Home Ec prof whose class was across the hall from his chemistry lab….and a couple of elementary public school teachers decided, on the basis of my test, to do a covert educational operation.
They schemed to get the border of the school territory carved around my block so I would have to go to the West Elementary for sixth grade.
Now, Mr. Graff was my 5th grade teacher, who lived on my block on the SW corner..... and Mr. Cannon was going to be my 6th grade teacher, who lived kitty corner next to the neighborhood grocery I used to rob for sweet tart straws. My family owned most of our block, so I'm sure Mr. Graff and Mr. Cannon saw me playing ranging across our huge wilderness block all the time, never studying.
But that only sweetened the pot for the teacher conspiracists. At the start of 6th grade, Mr. Cannon proudly introduced me to his class as a genius. Then he gave me the key to his classroom door and made me in charge of closing up after school, and mentioned that he would be giving awards for the best student who did his homework, even having contests in class to see who could show the best understanding of the assignment.....
I was hooked. I felt I had been singled out and honored in the highest way possible. I was trusted and bragged on...….I stayed in the classroom until I was sure I could answer any question about the assignments, so I could display my newfound genius. The "Indians" and "Robbers" lurking in the yard would just have to do without me, maybe find a new leader.
Mr. Cannon had his class bamboozled the whole year. I was the genius.
The next year, in the middle school where East and West were combined, the East crowd snickered when I wandered into the top math class. They were sure I was lost. But another public educator, a Mr. Hafen, stood up to the mockery and announced that I was the top pick for the advanced section.
maybe I shouldn't put down public education too much..... sure there are still some amazingly good teachers doing the job.