College Admissions Cheating Racket

[Dill]

(03-14-2019, 02:47 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Localities should create their own high end courses rather than using a model that just focuses on cramming for a test that exists to enrich the College Board. Teaching to a test hinder students and teachers.

You could work with local/state colleges to match it to their courses. 

I didn't realize AP courses did that. Don't some of them at least require that students read important books and write papers about them, using APA or MLA style documentation?  That would be quite a bit more than teaching to the test.

Are these courses then a kind of standardized "package" which is distributed schools, ready to plug in?  How would localities create their own high end courses--working with ed departments of nearby universities? That sounds like a good idea, more promising than NCLB or the Keystone program in PA.

Totally agree with you about teaching to tests. The result is a lot of incoming freshmen who cannot write well and don't know basic geography, among other things.  My wife thinks her students have changed very much over the last 10 years. Incoming freshmen now are a lot like pigeons trained to peck at this or that to get food/a grade.  But they don't think about why they are doing what they are doing and can't solve problems.

Until Trump became president, public school teaching was the only profession in which people with no experience at all could come in and mandate how people with professional experience should do it--then blame them when it doesn't work.