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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% of American high schoolers ha r straight As.

DCPS is only giving As and Bs this year.   They dropped Cs and below from the grading scale entirely.

This is going to make very student even. [/quote]
This will cause more colleges to require remedial classes to help students who got an  "A" in English in HS but clearly can only write at a 5th grade level.  Acceptances will become almost like a lottery, and admitting those students who cannot hack it in higher level institutions will hurt everyone..  These students should be going to community colleges for remedial classes, then transferring to 4 yr universities. By no means do I think that we should not help these kids, but pushing them into situations in which they are not prepared for is doing everyone a disservice.

They should replace the SATs with something else, like maybe a test like cogat or something.[/quote]
CogAT relies too heavily on speed, though I get what you mean; it sounds like you are referring to ability testing.  The old old old SAT purported to measure ability, unlike the current one that purports to measure academic skills per the Common Core State Standards.

(Poor David Coleman, SAT is going down in flames and it's only partly his fault; no one could have predicted a pandemic.  I thought he would have been gone long before now...)[/quote]
Here's the thing... in the real world, you are not giving "extra time" to solve a problem, not during the interview, and not on a project.

Lots of big name companies give out brainteaser type questions during interviews. You are not given extra time if you say you have LD issues. You have 5 min to solve that problem.  That's the way the real world works.[/quote]

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