To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (775131 ) 3/16/2014 12:57:15 PM From: longnshort Read Replies (1) | Respond to One of the goals of College Board president David Coleman is to more closely align the test with current high-school curricula. And the curriculum the folks over at College Board are referring to is Common Core. Coleman was one of the architects of Common Core, and took over the presidency of the College Board in May 2012. “The Common Core provides substantial opportunity to make the SAT even more reflective of what higher education wants,” Coleman said.As the Washington Post reported: “The SAT’s writers appear to be doing two things: changing what it tests; and making it easier. . . . It’s no accident that this push comes from a College Board President who helped produce the K-12 Common Core standards, which aim to establish a national grade-school curriculum.”The “making it easier” component is consistent with the standardization of mediocrity that Common Core national standards and tests represent. AEI’s Rick Hess calls it the Common Core-ification of the SAT. One of the major new changes to the SAT includes eliminating difficult words . Hess gives examples such as “punctilious” and “phlegmatic.” “I’m not sure,” Hess writes, “I regard these words as all that ‘obscure.’ And, in any event, I don’t know how you make a test more rigorous by dumbing down expectations for vocabulary.”
