NEWSMAX: Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is embracing recent changes in the SAT college entrance exam.
O’Connor, chairwoman of iCivics Inc., co-wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal with iCivics Executive Director Jeff Curley. In the article, O’Connor says changes in the SATs — which include dropping the essay and some vocabulary words — will force students to learn what the Founding Fathers wrote because the College Board has pledged that every test taker will read a passage from one of “America’s founding documents or the great global conversation they inspired.”
Also, the College Board, O’Connor writes, will provide free test preparation services… (more)
EDITOR: Free test preparation services are vitally important. Those who currently prep for the tests are able to significantly increase their performance. When we took the tests sixty years ago, all that was necessary was to read the booklet that came with it. Today some students, largely from upper middle class families, spend months of study and often have tutors to prepare them.
The tests are meant to show what the student knows about other matters, not what the students knows about taking the test.
