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UC is rethinking the high school courses required for admission. Here’s what to know
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (739+ words) sfchronicle.com Todayâs world can seem unrecognizable from only a generation ago, with digital skills needed even to summon a ride across town Yet the University of Californiaâs required high school coursework for admission is the same as…...
"5-8 Years Behind": US Math Teacher Warns Of Falling Standards, Calculus Class Starts With Fractions
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (338+ words) A University of California, Berkeley, mathematics professor has sparked a fresh debate over US university admissions, saying that she is teaching middle-school fractions and basic algebra to students enrolled in college-level calculus, attributing the slide to the campus' test-blind admissions…...
The subsidized school urges to re-do end-of-stage tests in all centers after the PISA fiasco
1+ week, 4+ day ago (516+ words) Diari ARA...
Penn Now Enforcing Math Prerequisites
1+ week, 5+ day ago (376+ words) As college students’ math skills decline worldwide, Penn is verifying students’ readiness for advanced calculus and algebra courses. Just one in five students who take calculus in high school will enroll directly in Calc II, research shows. Starting this fall,…...
???Academic crisis???: California GOP joins battle to quickly reinstate SAT for college admissions
2+ week, 2+ day ago (626+ words) Steve Hilton / YouTube screenshot Top California Republicans have now joined thousands of University of California professors in calling for the rapid return of standardized tests as part of the admissions application process. The concerns stem from the fact that many…...
Three state senators press UC to restore SAT test requirements, backing faculty outcry
2+ week, 3+ day ago (638+ words) Three Republican state senators are pressing the University of California to reinstate SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions, urging the Board of Regents to act “as soon as possible” and warning that six years without the tests has left…...
Choudrant ACT scores on the rise
2+ week, 5+ day ago (338+ words) By Laura Hunt Miller At Choudrant High School, students greet their principal happily as they pass signs of their peers’ academic achievements on the walls. Beneath a stately “ACT 30+ Club” sign, rows of student portraits recognize those who have scored…...
COMMENTARY: Racist tests | Jefferson City News-Tribune
2+ week, 4+ day ago (433+ words) Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, "antiracists" said the SAT's creators "were avowed eugenicists." No wonder Black people get lower scores. Even if the test isn't racist today,…...
Letters: SAT won’t bar diversity, just students unable to do the work
2+ week, 4+ day ago (730+ words) Re: “Testing restores barriers to entry for diverse kids” (Page A6, Aug. 21). If this author is representative of what happens when we relax UC admission standards, I fear for our future. She starts by claiming the university has the obligation to…...
Remediation Can’t Fix UC’s Admissions Problem — Minding The Campus
2+ week, 5+ day ago (472+ words) UC Berkeley: View from Sather Tower by Wally Gobetz on Flickr The regents have spent a lot of time and resources … making sure that when students get to the University of California, they are supported … If they need tutoring, if…...