Florida’s public universities will now permit the Classic Learning Test in admissions, offering a conservative-backed alternative to the SAT and ACT. Florida is now the first state university system in the country to allow for the Classic Learning Test (CLT), which has gained recent popularity among the state’s Christian and charter schools.
The classical education model — not to be confused with “classics” or “classical humanities” — focuses on a return to “core values” and the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The Florida state university system’s board of governors on Friday approved the test for use in undergraduate admissions.
I don’t understand how this works.
Are they funneling people from the worst schools into these weed-out classes? Because that doesn’t sound fair at all.
No. Everyone gets a weed-out class.
It functions as a defacto entrance exam. Like a navy SEALs bootcamp where everyone’s allowed to enter, but those dumb or deluded enough to think they can make it, run away screaming once they finally realise they don’t have what it takes.
Certainly better than having the weed-out classes later on in your studies, especially when you’re writing your (graduate?)master’s thesis/research.
Oh okay. I think when I was learning Spanish I was taught about some international universities that had extremely difficult entry exams as another to weed out a ton of applicants. The cost of attending was relatively low.
I thought that was a good model, too.