<p>“Do all Albanian kids go to those schools? Is it mandatory? What about the kids who can’t handle the courseload? Do they just drop those kids, or do they go to different schools?”</p>
<p>I didn’t ask but I’m pretty sure not everyone goes to the type of schools my cousin goes to. So yes I agree our high schools are about general education rather than hardcore academics, which in my opinion is what college is for, and that’s why I don’t think our schools are worse and if anything our school system is probably better because as you said it prepares everyone for life. Plus overall we have much better universities for the people that want to do hardcore academics.</p>
<p>According to that list, I’d be in at any school I wanted to go too. Too bad that’s not how it actually works… I wonder what it would be like for LACs…</p>
<p>For the SAT, it might be a bit more fair if you could take an average of SAT I and SAT II scores, considering the emphasis many schools now place on the latter.</p>
<p>To address the point I was making in disagreeing with Charles Murray, you would compare the bottom half of some other country to the bottom half of the United States. And that has already been done repeatedly by the TIMSS and PIRLS studies that I have already cited in this thread. Like Murray, I have lived overseas as an adult American, and unlike him, I’ve seen some very conspicuous examples of differing school practices (the kind discovered by Harold Stevenson’s international comparative studies) that show that there is more to do to improve primary education in the United States for most learners.</p>
<p>I think it’s interesting. Although I don’t think it would be a good idea to actually use this system. </p>
<p>What I think needs more emphasis is AP and SAT subject tests. That way, the paranoid kids who are obsessed with getting into an elite school will spend their time learning really material, not vainly and pointlessly prepping for the SAT.</p>
<p>What I think needs more emphasis is AP and SAT subject tests.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I think. The SAT is really controversial, but I feel like APs and Subject Tests actually test what you know and learned and school. They may have their flaws, but they do show ones ability to study material and retain information.</p>
<p>Top schools are starting to make that transition though. Especially Harvard and Princeton by requiring 3 subject tests, and most other top 20 schools require 2.</p>
I wonder what it would be like for LACs…</p>