Cal State prof warns scrapping SAT in name of ‘inclusivity’ is leaving students unprepared

Excellent article!

Coming from an economics professor, albeit most likely a liberal one, this is HUGE. I hope her message will be picked up by others and disseminated nationwide. As an instructor and tutor, I see and deal with these deficiencies on a regular basis, and often have to go back to elementary school to begin building again what should have been mastered in the early grades.

Don't let your kids skip challenging courses, don't let them skip standardized tests, and question the criteria used by test-optional colleges to admit what are basically functionally illiterate students.

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A California economics professor is sounding the alarm on the "deficits in learning" she is seeing in the classroom, arguing that the decision to scrap standardized testing in the name of "inclusivity" is actually a disservice to the students it claims to help.

Cal State Long Beach professor Andrea Mays told Fox News Digital that the current cohort of college students, many of whom spent their formative middle school years in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, are arriving on campus unprepared for basic coursework.

Mays says the drop rate is up "phenomenally" and that chairs of other departments tell her it's widespread, with 25% of students dropping classes, with math being a key area where students are coming in underprepared.

"I teach a class that is offered for non-economics majors," Mays explained. "I could put on an index card exactly what math is required for my class, it's not calculus, and they are struggling with it, they're embarrassed, they're demoralized, they come into my classroom, and they say, or into my office hours, and they say, I never learned this stuff, I don't know how to calculate a percentage change."