Calif.’s Humanities Professors Join STEM Peers, Demand ‘Verbal Reasoning Component’ of SAT/ACT Be Reinstated

Calif.’s humanities professors join STEM peers, demand ‘verbal reasoning component’ of SAT/ACT be reinstated

California’s STEM professors are not the only ones demanding the SAT admissions requirement be reinstated, saying far too many college students cannot do basic math. Social science scholars want in on the action, too. “We are University of California faculty from the social sciences, humanities, arts, business, law, education, and other non-STEM fields. We are writing to endorse our STEM… Source

Berkeley math professor argues that we need to bring back SATs and other standardized tests in college admissions

Svetlana (Lana) Jitomirskaya is a mathematics professor at Berkeley (Wikipedia, which puts her at two other schools, is out of date), and is one of 29 authors (I’m in there, too) on a paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, “In Defense of Merit in Science“. Lana is also a winner of the American Academy of Science and Letters’s Barry Prize for distinguished intellectual achievement. I mention this because she is distressed at the very low ma…