DAILYCALLER (Mary Rooke) - ROOKE: 1619 Author Sacrificed Her Daughter On The Altar Of Virtue Signaling
‘Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me.’
DAILYCALLER (Geoffrey Ingersoll) - INGERSOLL: The UC Schools Should Keep Graduating Diverse Idiots, Says ‘Pulitzer Winner’
You gotta read it to believe it
NYTIMES (Miriam Pawel) - The University of California Dumped the SAT. Let’s Not Bring It Back.
There are more intractable underlying issues to tackle.
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Army scraps new SAT minimum for ROTC cadets one week after announcing it, drawing Hegseth's ire
The Army withdrew a new policy requiring ROTC cadets to meet a minimum SAT score just seven days after issuing it, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not pleased with the reversal. An internal Army memo dated August 5 established, for the first time, minimum standardized test scores for students entering the ROTC program: a […] The post Army scraps new SAT minimum for ROTC cadets one week after announcing it, drawing Hegseth's ire appeared first on American Almanac .
The Army withdrew a new policy requiring ROTC cadets to meet a minimum SAT score just seven days after issuing it, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not pleased with the reversal. An internal Army memo dated August 5 established, for the first time, minimum standardized test scores for students entering the ROTC program: a 1000 on the SAT, a 20 on the ACT, or a score above the 50th percentile on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the military's own entrance exam. The standards were set to take effect in January. Jules Hurst, then the assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, signed the memo and framed the change as essential to building a fighting force led by capable officers. One week later, on…Open
JUSTTHENEWS (Claire Harrington) - Texas becomes latest state to welcome alternative college entrance exam amid SAT, ACT scrutiny
The test is considered a response, and alternative, to pervasive "woke" curriculum in higher education.
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With this change, Texas becomes one of several states that now accept the CLT for public university admissions.
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After decades of using standardized testing to vet recruits, the Marine Corps could begin using a personality test to identify traits that lead to success.
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Test scores "less subject to bias."