The SAT will now be all digital. It’ll be a shorter (two hours instead of three), simpler and, “perhaps easier test.” (Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2022). Its reading passages will be shorter. Calculators will be allowed for all math tests.
Watching this formerly purpose-driven, standardized test become ever more compromised and irrelevant has been sad, though predictable.
In the 1950’, the SAT did its job magnificently for my family. My brother and I were elementary school immigrants to America. We lived on a chicken farm —…
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About Miriam
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer.
For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children.
Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.
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