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...College Board wants schools to produce better writers, so the New SAT will require an essay. The board thinks grammar is important, so the new test will ask students to fix poorly deployed gerunds and such. To encourage earlier advanced-math instruction, the New SAT will go beyond basic algebra and geometry for the first time to include Algebra II class material (remember negative exponents--q(-3), for instance?). The board, a powerful group of 4,300 educational institutions--including most of America's leading universities--has undertaken an unprecedented effort to push local school districts to alter their curriculums...
...semester of Algebra II for students who didn't get to Algebra I until Grade 9; it would be an unorthodox move that could require hiring more teachers. In Ohio, curriculum specialist Jennifer Manoukian of the Sycamore school system, outside Cincinnati, feels uneasy about the prospect of grammar questions. "Research shows that direct instruction of grammar is not beneficial," she says. "The correlation between that kind of grammar instruction and student performance in real life is very low. Yet here we have a test seeming to say that you have to go back to some old methods...
...other kinds of noise are now to be allowed. Take the writing section, which will be divided between multiple-choice questions on grammar and style, and an essay students must write on an assigned topic (see chart for an example). Historically, the SAT has had only multiple-choice items. As Lemann writes of the early rationale for the SAT, "Tests that require a student to write essays ... are highly susceptible to the subjective judgment of the grader and to the mood of the taker on the day of the test, so they have low reliability...
...came to Boston from Saigon in 1997. He credits the Summer Program for teaching him English. “My counselors made me speak English in class and write in a journal every week. By the end of my second summer I was able to speak, write with less grammar errors and had an enhanced vocabulary,” says Truong. “I’m now able to do more volunteer work in the community.” While attending the Boston Latin School, near the Harvard Medical School, Truong has begun to work as a youth...
Hewitt says she may work as a volunteer teacher in some of the New Hampshire grammar schools as well, continuing a career in education even after retirement. She spent her academic career teaching Expository Writing in addition to upholding her administrative duties...