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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised so few of them signed this letter.  Where are the rest?  Are they happy with the current state of UC education?[/quote]

You think 280 STEM professors at Berkeley isn't a lot?  That's half the total STEM faculty.[/quote]

It's 280 all over the UC system, not just Berkeley.[/quote]
Not all professors agree with this. I don’t know why they’re recommending the SAT when the UC system was supposed to be developing its own rigorous exam designed by UC faculty.[/quote]

They looked into the CAASPP as an alternative.  The CAASPP is California's state-wide academic barometer test given to different grades, like 8th, 11th.  The same racial disparities that afflicted the SAT were found in the CAASPP.  The use of standardized testing is a very sensitive one in California because there is the belief that white supremacy has infected the entirety of how academic achievement is measured and that whatever path California takes has to be completely distinct from all past iterations.

The UC system looked at developing its own test but decided against it.[/quote]

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