Red States really dislike colleges and universities because they consistently produce people who don't vote Republican anymore. So they've moving to degrade them, converting them into institutions much more like high schools. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
"Red States Are Dumbing Down College Admissions ... using a test originally taken mainly by kids who were homeschooled or had attended private religious academies." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
"More than 70 percent of the county’s seniors who could not pass the state’s math exam were passing the CLT’s math section. For the English section, that number was more than 30 percent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
They cant pass ACT or SAT...
"I was taking the Classic Learning Test, an alternative to the SAT and ACT. The test is only 11 years old, and was originally taken mainly by kids who were homeschooled or had attended private religious academies."
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Red States Are Dumbing Down College Admissions
Can this classics test replace the SAT?
By Rose Horowitch
October 26, 2026, 11:27 AM ET
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The likely end result will be more students from red states getting into college only to drop out without a degree but with college debt. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Atlantic's piece on the Classic Learning Test mentions my reporting on how the exam helped raise high school grad rates in Florida. Also drops that a MIT spox wrote, "CLT scores are not considered in admissions decisions. The not was underlined." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
共和党系の州で採用が進む大学入試試験CLT、独立研究者による難度と換算手法への疑義。
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Red States Are Dumbing Down College Admissions
Rose Horowitch(The Atlantic)
2026年10月26日
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The Classic Learning Test is trying to replace the SAT and ACT, @rosehorowitch writes. She reports on why red states are adopting the CLT at an astonishing rate—and why the test may be lowering standards for students: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
“For years, red-state politicians criticized progressives for eroding the education system in service of an ideological agenda. Yet, more and more seem to be jettisoning their states’ best measures of accountability to win an ideological argument”
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ARE YOU SICKENED UNTO DEATH OF THESE MAGA TYPES POLITICIZING AND WEAPONIZING ON THAT BASIS, EVEN THE ENTRANCE EXAMS TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES???
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