Smithsonian Magazine

100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. Where Is It Headed?

The standardized exam has evolved over the past century, all in the name of testing for college readiness. Now, it has become ...

A Dad Says His Son’s Teacher Assigns Homework Through an App That Requires a Subscription, and Families Who Don’t Pay Get Marked Incomplete

The issue started quietly, the way most school problems do, through a notification that seemed routine at first glance.
SFGate

Edsource: Uc Freshmen Increasingly Are Not Ready For College Math. Some Professors Want To Require The Sat Again

About a dozen first-year UC Berkeley students gathered one afternoon last fall inside a classroom in Evans Hall, where math professor Zvezdelina Stankova held office hours for one of her calculus ...
Wall Street Journal

University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT

More than 1,100 University of California math and science professors are urging UC regents to reinstate college-entrance exams, saying that unprepared students are lowering academic standards and ...
KPBS

UC faculty push for return of SAT/ACT math testing for STEM majors

Faculty members at the University of California are calling on the UC system to bring back standardized tests in its admissions process. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it comes as more and ...
YourTango

College STEM Students Can Barely Do Middle School Math, Say Hundreds Of UC Professors Demanding The Return Of SAT Scores

A debate about the role standardized testing scores should play in a student’s academic future has been raging for years now. Much of this discussion has centered around how useful college entrance ...
Inside Higher Ed

Hundreds of Math Professors Ask UC to Bring Back SAT/ACT Requirements

More than 800 professors in the University of California system, including seven of nine math department chairs, are calling on system leaders to reinstate SAT/ACT testing requirements for applicants ...
Wall Street Journal

The Academy Rethinks the SAT

Journal Editorial Report: How top marks became the norm at elite colleges. Photo: Sophie Park/Bloomberg News/Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters Six years ago, in the 2020 year of progressive pandemic madness, ...
Fox News

Unprepared college students forced to relearn 'middle school mathematics,' California professors reveal

Hundreds of University of California (UC) professors signed a letter demanding the reinstatement of SAT/ACT mathematics requirements for students after revealing they are re-teaching basic math to ...
Los Angeles Times

Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hundreds of UC faculty are urging a return of SAT or ACT test requirements for STEM applicants, citing math ...
Yahoo

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students and faculty walk the courtyard at UC Irvine. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) More than 600 University of ...
New York Post

UC professors say they’re teaching middle school math after SAT ban

University of California professors are sounding the alarm on a “severe” lack of math skills among college students — thanks to a decision to ban standardized testing in admissions at the elite ...