The high school class of 2006 recorded the sharpest drop in SAT scores in 31 years, a decline that the exam’s owner, the College Board, said was partly due to some students taking the newly lengthened test only once instead of twice.
The results come several months after numerous colleges reported surprisingly low SAT scores for this year’s incoming college freshmen. The nonprofit College Board, which had said scores would be down this year, released figures Tuesday showing combined critical reading and math skills fell seven points on average to 1021.
You can read the article to see all the lame excuses. This is the result after five years of the “education” president.
Sloofus (40) Isn’t the point of testing not to measure how well the student was prepared for the test and just how much they actually know? Our education system (I’m Canadian, and there’s a few differences, but not enough to affect this point) tends to produce extremely good test takers, but not neccesarily people who actually understand the subject matter. The solution to this is likely very complicated, but may include some way to de-emphasize standardized tests – one idea – what would happen if each college had its own entrance exam – they may be poorer quality tests than the SAT (smaller sample size, less corrections made to bad/vague/poorly written questions), but they’d vary enough between schools that the teachers would have to stop preparing kids to take the SAT or ACT, and just work on making sure the students understand the ideas and concepts behind the material. (Of course, college admission costs would likely rise, but no solution is perfect – someone else can probably think of a better one)
let us see it this way, as a parent who now has their children in public schools adn i am sending them to private next year. The teachers these days do not want to teach. I am a very active parent at our school. I am there 3 times a week 2 hours a day for volunteering. I head the volunteer organization. Teachers are so against helping a student if it doesn’t fall in there “have to teach spectrum” for instance, I saw a child struggling with addition(1st grade) instead of saying what do you think the answer is, let’s try together she said ” I don’t do simple addition help, you need to learn it on your own” Well, why are you a teacher? I was livid and I told her, why don’t you work on it with him adn then next time see if he can get it by himself.
They do not want to teach. As for the pay, teachers get more thatn you think, and we only make 40 thou a year but we will be sending 4 childrten to private school.
Teachers have to change, or or school systems will continue to go down hill.
Minnie