Efforts to eliminate standardized tests have mounted over the past decade, particularly when tests are used in decisions related to promotion, graduation, and college admission. The attack on standardized testing has primarily focused on the SAT, a test developed in 1926 to determine college readiness.
The Last, Best Hope: A New Texas University Looks to Restore Genuine Higher Education
As someone who has spent most of his life working in American universities, my subsequent writing about it in these pages has been for the most part negative. And not without reason: My on-campus experience, coupled with my research, has led me to agree with the assertion that constitutes the subtitle of Allan Bloom’s “The...