❄️ Generation Snowflake ❄️: Students earn more A’s as SAT scores drop

[TalkRadio]

Generation Snowflake : Students earn more A’s as SAT scores drop

U.S. high school students are earning more A’s in the classroom, but declining in scores on the SAT achievement test, a clear sign of grade inflation, say experts.

In a study of the data, Michael Hurwitz of the College Board – which owns the newly designed, Common Core-aligned SAT – and Jason Lee, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, found that nearly half of high school graduates in 2016 are A students, even though the average SAT score dropped from 1,026 to 1,002 on the 1,600-point scale.

As USA Today reports, Hurwitz referred to the hike in the A average as “really stunning,” adding that an A is now “the modal high school grade,” a clear indication that grades are being inflated.

The researchers looked at the academic transcripts of high school graduates from 1998 to 2016, and found the average grade point average (GPA) rose from 3.27 to 3.38. The average SAT score, however, declined.

Additionally, data published in April from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) finds that the average public high school graduation rate in the U.S. is above 83 percent, though only 56 percent of college students graduate with a bachelor’s degree within six years, and only 29 percent who enter two-year community colleges earn an associate’s degree within three years, according to a study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/18/u-s-students-earn-drop-sat-scores/

 

[toeskr]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/18/u-s-students-earn-drop-sat-scores/

Don't participation ribbons count? There are really no winners or losers as long as everyone has fun.

Hello burger King.

 

[EmpressJosephine]

Don't participation ribbons count? There are really no winners or losers as long as everyone has fun.

Hello burger King.

As a post-secondary educator, I can assure you this has become a serious problem. Students get admitted, then they don't have the basic skills to handle their first year courses.

 

[cfuhrer]

And a fifteen dollar minimum wage ensues.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, Ishmael and I have talked for years about how government money fuels grade inflation and degree inflation. And the very sad part is that when it comes to subjects such as "climate change," the default assumption is that we have to listen to its clergy because they have their degrees and that the degrees are top notch and unquestionable. The government throws money at fields that have some political benefit and floods it with the inflated degrees that it created...

 

[TalkRadio]

Why don’t millennials like capitalism? Blame parents. Blame schools. Blame Obama.

The entitlement mentality...

As a society, we have done millennials a disservice. An entire generation of young people in America came of age during a decade of sluggish economic growth, and as a result, many are skeptical of free enterprise and capitalism. A stunning 2016 Harvard University survey of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 found that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism. Millennial support for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary was proof that young people today aren’t enamored with capitalism.

During the Obama years, the 18-29 age group heard countless presidential speeches railing against the evils of “crony” capitalism. President Obama told impressionable young voters if only the rich paid more taxes, everyone would be better off. But Obama’s tax and spend policies produced a predictably stagnant economy that stifled economic opportunity for young people.

The Obama agenda also attacked the notion of personal responsibility, killed on the altar of universal “rights” and the politics of victimhood. The Left preached that everyone has a “right” to free child care, free health care, a free college education and a roof over their head. And that the State will provide no matter what, so there’s no need to save, no need to work hard or pay your mortgage or student loans.

This is also the first generation raised by “helicopter parents,” who did their part, however well- intentioned, to undermine personal responsibility. Too many of today’s parents do everything for their children and shield them from learning life’s hard lessons.

Then they went off to a higher educational system that produces an oversupply of the white-collar soft-science and humanities majors, many of whom have no marketable skills. Not able to put their expensive educations to use, they became unemployed or underemployed. Being highly educated and yet working at Starbucks, waiting tables or living in your mom’s basement can indeed make you cynical about the benefits of hard work and free enterprise.

http://www.thestate.com/opinion/article161763868.html#fmp

 

[TalkRadio]

As a post-secondary educator, I can assure you this has become a serious problem. Students get admitted, then they don't have the basic skills to handle their first year courses.

It seems the Univ. of Wisconsin system has developed a rather comprehensive "Developmental & Remedial Education" program to address those very issues.

Developmental & Remedial Education
https://www.wisconsin.edu/developmental-remedial-education/

 

[TalkRadio]

Don't participation ribbons count? There are really no winners or losers as long as everyone has fun.

Hello burger King.

And a fifteen dollar minimum wage ensues.

I wish them well. It seems kiosks will eventually replace many of those entry-level, minimum wage jobs.

 

[TalkRadio]

Yeah, Ishmael and I have talked for years about how government money fuels grade inflation and degree inflation. And the very sad part is that when it comes to subjects such as "climate change," the default assumption is that we have to listen to its clergy because they have their degrees and that the degrees are top notch and unquestionable. The government throws money at fields that have some political benefit and floods it with the inflated degrees that it created...

Student loan debt is estimated to be $1.3 trillion dollars. Will this be the next bubble to burst?

Student Loan Debt In 2017: A $1.3 Trillion Crisis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/02/21/student-loan-debt-statistics-2017/#4fe82735daba

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Look for the Progressive push to forgive all of those loans...

 

[TalkRadio]

Look for the Progressive push to forgive all of those loans...

The Obama agenda also attacked the notion of personal responsibility, killed on the altar of universal “rights” and the politics of victimhood. The Left preached that everyone has a “right” to free child care, free health care, a free college education and a roof over their head. And that the State will provide no matter what, so there’s no need to save, no need to work hard or pay your mortgage or student loans.

^^^ Another Obama legacy.

http://www.thestate.com/opinion/article161763868.html#fmp

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's not his legacy, it is the legacy of the Educational-Governmental Complex.


It is the product of many years of massaging the thought process and philosophy of those seeking to enter academia and from there was spread to those whom would teach and they, in their turn, inculcated their students away from their rights as individuals and to the rights of the tribe and to desire self-sacrifice as the highest morality.


VDH had a brilliant quote that I used to use about President Obama being a culmination of a movement concluding that his rise was somewhat overdue and without his presence, we would have had to invent someone just like him.

 

[Rightguide]

Yeah, Ishmael and I have talked for years about how government money fuels grade inflation and degree inflation. And the very sad part is that when it comes to subjects such as "climate change," the default assumption is that we have to listen to its clergy because they have their degrees and that the degrees are top notch and unquestionable. The government throws money at fields that have some political benefit and floods it with the inflated degrees that it created...

Couple that with lesser qualified teachers and their unions who fight competency testing and who might be teaching bullshit and submitting phony testing data to protect their own jobs, and you have the foundation for corrupting the system.

How much in education is about politics and social policy? It seems we spend more time making sure our students are politically correct ideologically because they all seem to repeat well known liberal memes but demonstrate profound ignorance in elementary subjects like American history, classical history, civics, math, science, and economics.

Education today seems to be more about upsetting traditional American values of liberty, individualism, and federalism, in order to create good Democrats, willing to accept more and more left leaning centralized federal authority than their preceding generations.

 

[Disgustipated]

As a post-secondary educator, I can assure you this has become a serious problem. Students get admitted, then they don't have the basic skills to handle their first year courses.

You're either a liar or terrible at your job. Probably both.

 

[Disgustipated]

BTW - most of the people in this thread haven't sat in a classroom in over 45 years or more.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/18/u-s-students-earn-drop-sat-scores/

U.S. high school students are earning more A’s in the classroom, but declining in scores on the SAT achievement test, a clear sign of grade inflation, say experts.

In a study of the data, Michael Hurwitz of the College Board – which owns the newly designed, Common Core-aligned SAT – and Jason Lee, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education, found that nearly half of high school graduates in 2016 are A students, even though the average SAT score dropped from 1,026 to 1,002 on the 1,600-point scale.

As USA Today reports, Hurwitz referred to the hike in the A average as “really stunning,” adding that an A is now “the modal high school grade,” a clear indication that grades are being inflated.

The researchers looked at the academic transcripts of high school graduates from 1998 to 2016, and found the average grade point average (GPA) rose from 3.27 to 3.38. The average SAT score, however, declined.

Additionally, data published in April from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) finds that the average public high school graduation rate in the U.S. is above 83 percent, though only 56 percent of college students graduate with a bachelor’s degree within six years, and only 29 percent who enter two-year community colleges earn an associate’s degree within three years, according to a study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

"Whenever you see the words 'sources say' in the fake news media, and they don't mention names... it is very possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers."

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Couple that with lesser qualified teachers and their unions who fight competency testing and who might be teaching bullshit and submitting phony testing data to protect their own jobs, and you have the foundation for corrupting the system.

How much in education is about politics and social policy? It seems we spend more time making sure our students are politically correct ideologically because they all seem to repeat well known liberal memes but demonstrate profound ignorance in elementary subjects like American history, classical history, civics, math, science, and economics.

Education today seems to be more about upsetting traditional American values of liberty, individualism, and federalism, in order to create good Democrats, willing to accept more and more left leaning centralized federal authority than their preceding generations.

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