As Colleges Move To Do Away With
The SAT In The Name Of Diversity,
Detroit High School Valedictorian
Struggles With Low-Level Math
Daily Caller,
by
Luke Rosiak
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
12/4/2019 9:14:08 PM
The valedictorian of a Detroit high school is reportedly struggling with basic math in college.
The development comes as colleges have increasingly rejected objective admissions criteria in the name of “equity,” with University of California poised to no longer require the SAT because of the racial impact it has on admissions.
“Marqell McClendon has struggled in the low-level math class she’s taking during her first semester at Michigan State University,” the news outlet Chalkbeat reported Nov. 15. McClendon, the valedictorian of her graduating class at Detroit’s Cody High School, was used to getting all A’s, but found herself asking strangers to help her with her college coursework, it said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 12/4/2019 9:39:47 PM (No. 252961)
Now do you know why companies want to bring in more and more foreign workers??
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pinger 12/4/2019 9:40:42 PM (No. 252962)
A huge portion of the problems that our country has starts with education or lack thereof. In my opinion the federal government should have zero to do with the education of children. When I read scores in math and science from countries around the world it's absolutely embarrassing where the U.S. stands. We are now experiencing the problems that an education system overtaken by socialists begets and we'll pay dearly on the world stage for what is happening to us.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/4/2019 9:48:36 PM (No. 252967)
The young lady is highly motivated, but she was shortchanged in high school. She should go to a local community college before going to a 4-5 year school, because she has been misled by her high school teachers and guidance counselors to think she is capable of college level work when she is not .The courses will get harder as she moves along, and she needs to be PREPARED. There is no reason for her to struggle to pass courses when the answer is for her to take what she missed in high school by taking the intermediate step of conmmunity college. She needs to take a step back.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/4/2019 9:54:07 PM (No. 252971)
Asians came to this country illiterate and now they're acing the SATs. Why can't the blacks/browns born in AMERICA receiving all the advantages of academic perks and the tools since birth, do the same? We keep lowering the bars or the threshold of achieving minimum intelligence for social and economic success by dumbing down these kids. Get the Government and the Unions out of public school systems. They are the PROBLEM!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
thewarden 12/4/2019 10:02:06 PM (No. 252974)
I had an excellent GPA at the all-girls Catholic high school I attended. But, my SAT scores did not reflect my intelligence and diligence. Therefore, I think perhaps there is a better way? I’m not sure what or how, but standardized tests are not always the best measurement of one’s fitness for college. In this story, perhaps, but in general? No. Just sayin’...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/4/2019 10:15:01 PM (No. 252978)
What did this child do to be publicly humiliated? Whether true or not WE do her harm by USING her to make a point about education. STOP IT!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cold porridge 12/4/2019 10:15:07 PM (No. 252979)
Our educational system has been dumbing down the students for decades. Just look at Mad Maxine and Hank Johnson. (I could list a lot more, but then I would be here for hours.)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 12/4/2019 10:16:57 PM (No. 252982)
No Math, no Science, no History, no Geography, no English, but plenty of social justice and diversity programs. This country is headed for disaster and it won't become evident until China passes us in everything and we become a second class country.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 12/4/2019 10:55:13 PM (No. 252997)
Sp you can be a "college grad-jee-ate" and not know a damned thing that is factual, or have any useful skills......just like Sandy, the Tip-Stealing Barmaid.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/4/2019 11:22:32 PM (No. 253009)
Since high science and engineering were stolen from Africa, you'd think there would be an natural predilection for this stuff.
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I am an emeritus math professor and department chairman. This girl is to be admired and encouraged for persevering and working hard rather than just giving up, as many in her situation do. These students have been cheated by their public schools. It's not that they can't do the work if properly taught and challenged. I once had a student in her exact situation who was offered a graduate fellowship at Harvard. She turned it down, saying she really needed to stay at here state university a few more years. She said if Harvard still wanted her when she was ready, she would consider it. SAT and high school GPA are really very poor predictors of college GPA. I would recommend using them just to eliminate the bottom five or ten percent of applicants who have almost no chance of success. Many admitted under that criterion would fail, but it wouldn't screen out the intelligent ambitious students, like this girl, who are able to overcome their disadvantage.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
leonardo 12/4/2019 11:55:05 PM (No. 253021)
China will eat us alive as we continue with social promotions while their students excel and are way ahead of ours. Thank the Leftist teachers' unions and Leftist school administrators & boards who have sabotaged America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 12/5/2019 12:58:37 AM (No. 253034)
What happened to Classical Education... grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/5/2019 1:23:17 AM (No. 253044)
That so-called valedictorian must have real high marks in sex education, rumbling, and Ebonics. Yet can't do math using the 2+2 = 5 CommieCore? So much for being a valedictorian.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Donna M 12/5/2019 1:27:00 AM (No. 253045)
I believe this is academic churn designed to fatten the University coffers. Bring in plenty of poorly qualified students, make them spend on remedial courses, keep them for five or six years spending on courses, dorms and food, or wash 'em out and bring in a new load. But you get to say the University is Diverse!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msts 12/5/2019 4:11:35 AM (No. 253088)
Only an intellectual would applaud this without understanding the real meaning of what is being said.
"Bob Murphy, the director or university relations and policy for the Michigan Association of State Universities, told Inside Higher Ed that not requiring math will ideally “lead to more successful graduation outcomes.”
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What they need to do is take race, gender and age off the applications. This nation is as diversified as it will ever be and AA needs to go. Some of these students with enormous debt should have gone to a tech school and gotten a real job. Many leave high school ill prepared for college or the real world.
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Few things have hurt blacks more than affirmative action. So the colleges are doubling down on it.