Letter: Elias missed the point on SAT, ACT

I as of late composed a letter to the editorial manager testing that the Common Core Standards are useful for American training. The next day, I read the section by Thomas Elias of CalMatters blasting UC Berkeley for its declaration that it will never again utilize the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT) for confirmations. He considers this to be as a "stupefying" of the college, and he accuses absence of parental commitment and even the vernaculars of minority kids as the reason for lower scores.

His answer is for school locale to give free test taking practice to those understudies. Nonetheless, that one can prepare for the tests shows they are not real proportions of revolting quality training. Thomas Elias is plainly falling under the oppression of testing foisted on the schools for over a century.

A little history enables: The College To placement test Board (CEEB) was established in 1899 by a consortium of world class eastern universities and a couple of private "feeder" schools. Its affirmed object was to direct the secondary school educational program along the lines regarded important by school teachers. (Wikipedia, CEEB.) In 1926, CEEB made the SAT, which, with the ACT, has contrarily influenced the destiny of horde understudies, especially original school goers. Under open analysis for victimizing minorities, the school tests have been reconsidered, yet barely enough to break the oppression of testing. Berkeley is all in all correct to dump the tests, and one expectations different schools and colleges will pursue its lead.