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Sunday, September 6th, 2015

SAT Scores Continue Troubling Downward Slide, but No One Knows Exactly Why

Author:     Laura Moser
Source:     Slate
Publication Date:     Sept. 4 2015 3:33 PM
 Link: SAT Scores Continue Troubling Downward Slide, but No One Knows Exactly Why
Stephan:   This year’s SAT scores, released this week by the College Board, are the lowest since the test was redesigned a decade ago, while ACT stores have remained mostly flat," this report tell us. It is increasingly clear that America's educational system, once the envy of the world, has gone seriously off the rails from top to bottom. One reason almost certainly is the privatization movement, and President Bush's No Child Left Behind nonsense.
A more diverse pool of kids is taking the SAT than ever before. Credit: Devrim PINAR/Shutterstock

A more diverse pool of kids is taking the SAT than ever before.
Credit: Devrim PINAR/Shutterstock

The College Board, which administers the SAT college entrance exam, has been in the news a lot lately, as more and more higher-education institutions, most recently George Washington University, are adopting “test-optional” admissions policies, engineered to draw a wider pools of applicants. At the same time, 14 states have started requiring all eleventh-graders to take the SAT instead of a more localized Common Core–aligned achievement test. This summer, Connecticut and New Hampshire became the latest states to require the SAT and offer it for free—an effort both to cut back on the number of tests administered, since it will count toward the high-school testing requirement mandated by No Child Left Behind, and to give more students a shot at enrolling in college.

And yet. Even as (or perhaps because) a […]

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