SAT Scores Hold Steady for Class of '08
The recent crop of high school graduates tied their predecessors' scores on the standardized test
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I know many parents who do an excellent job in leading their children in the right direction yet their children get in trouble. Your statement- questioning Palin's leadership skills based on the actions of he 17 year old (after all she is not 13) does not make any sence or whatsoever.
Even within the same family you see many cases where a child gets in trouble while their siblings do not. So- what goes wrong? Same parents, same upbringing, same set of moral values
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Why isn't anyone challenging McCain's narrative? The abuse of the term "hero" is staggering: It means less than nothing now. A man who crashes 5 planes and suffers profoundly in prison somehow transmutes into the Count of Monte Cristo by way of abandoning his cancer-striken wife and marrying an heiress, who inherited everything by conning her industrious father into disinheriting her own sisters? Who gibes, "I want everyone to be rich!" as if this were a valid policy and not a pie in the sky catch all like, "I'm for world peace!"
Yes, it is a shame that candidates for office don't indict themselves publically, for our voyeurism and amusement, but with printing presses and electrons flying across the wires at the speed of light, with the blogs and the froth and the exaggerated feelings of victimhood, do they really have to?
SAT and ACT scores
Unfortunately for all of us who love the truth, regardless of how unpleasant it is, the College Board continues to ignore the reality of the role of IQ in scoring high on the SAT. Taking "Advanced Placement and honors classes" and exhibiting "good study habits" are characteristic behaviors of children with high(above 115)IQs. A child of average IQ or below will probably never find himself in such classes and even with "good study habits" will find he just does not have the intellectual capability to correctly answer the questions on the SAT.
Why do we want to torture our youngsters so? How cruel that our educational establishment "leaders" so blithely state to our children, "you could do it if you really wanted it" or "all it takes is hard work".
The truth is, no matter how bad he "wants it" or how "hard he tries", a child of average or below average intellectual ability is never going to be able to compete at the college level and will surely end up quitting or being forced to quit by administrators who will undoubtedly make sure the failed student understands that he "just didn't want it bad enough to work hard to get it."
