Friday, September 28, 2012

What is the SAT Good For? Absolutely Nothing | Alternet

What is the SAT Good For? Absolutely Nothing | Alternet:


What is the SAT Good For? Absolutely Nothing

The SAT is a metric that confirms privilege -- not academic achievement or academic readiness for college. So why do we insist on using it?
 
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A certain Groundhog Day quality accompanies fall with the opening of schools and the inevitable release of SAT scores. While the Bill Murray comedy made light of the existential hell of a life lived like Sisyphus, the College Board's data dump each fall leaves little to provoke even a smile.
In 2000, David Grissmer confrontedthe publication and uses of SAT data:
"There is a unique issue in public policy