One of the best articles explaining the change in the SAT and problems with the Common Core. ....as the Common Core Standards emerged, it became apparent that they set a ceiling on the academic preparation of most students. Students who go through schools that follow the Common Core Standards will be ill-prepared for the rigors of college. That is, unless something can be done on the other end to ensure that colleges lower their standards. Then everything will be well. None of this might matter if the Common Core were just a baseline and students and schools could easily move above it if they wished to. The trouble is that the Common Core has been designed to be a sticky baseline. It is hard for schools to rise above it. There are two reasons for that. First, it uses up most of the time in a K-12 curriculum, leaving little room for anything else. Second, the states that were leveraged into it via Obamas Race to the Top agreed that students who graduate from high school with a Common Core education and are admitted to public colleges and universities will automatically be entered into credit-bearing courses. This is tricky. Essentially what it means is that public colleges will have to adjust their curricula down to the level of knowledge and skill that the Common Core mandates. And that in turn means that most schools will have little reason to offer anything beyond the Common Core, even if they can. In this way, the Common Core floor becomes very much a ceiling too. The changes in the SAT are meant to expedite this transition. mindingthecampus/originals/2014/03/the_sat_upgrade_is_a_big_mista.html
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:01:37 +0000
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