{"id":2025794,"date":"2023-09-08T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-poised-to-authorize-conservative-favored-college-entrance-exam\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:45:52","slug":"florida-poised-to-authorize-conservative-favored-college-entrance-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-poised-to-authorize-conservative-favored-college-entrance-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida set to approve conservative-backed college entrance exam."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-poised-to-authorize-conservative-favored-college-entrance-exam%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Florida&#8217;s Public \u200dUniversity System Embraces Classical Education<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/33-calif-colleges-to-require-vaccine-cards-to-attend-in-person-classes\/\" title=\"33 Calif. colleges to require vaccine cards to attend in-person classes\">public university system<\/a> is poised to authorize a new \u2063entrance\u2064 exam that emphasizes classical Western \u2063thought and has been used mostly\u200b by private and religious colleges, the latest move by the \u200bstate to\u200d make education more conservative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Board of Governors of \u200bthe 12-campus State University System of Florida will consider the adoption of the Classic Learning Test (CLT) on Friday.\u200d The test, which would be accepted along with the\u2063 more traditional SAT and ACT exams, is already\u200c authorized for use in the state&#8217;s public elementary and secondary schools as a way to assess learning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CLT places \u200ba strong \u2062emphasis on\u2062 classical education, which includes a\u2063 focus on reading, writing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-we-are-the-majority-here-are-ideas-on-what-we-can-do-moving-forward\/\" title=\"Remember We Are the Majority \u2013 Here Are Idea\u2019s On What We Can Do Moving Forward\">critical thinking skills<\/a>,&#8221;\u200c Chancellor Ray\u200b Rodrigues\u200b said in a statement. &#8220;It \u2062is designed to align with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-poised-to-authorize-conservative-favored-college-entrance-exam\/\" title=\"Florida set to approve conservative-backed college entrance exam.\">classical liberal arts curriculum<\/a>, which some educators and institutions believe provides a more well-rounded and meaningful education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The test&#8217;s adoption would mark the third time \u2062that Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) has taken on the nonprofit College Board, which administers the SAT, or Scholastic Aptitude Test.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who is seeking the\u2063 Republican nomination for president in the 2024 election, previously banned the College Board&#8217;s new Advanced Placement high school curriculum in\u2063 African American Studies. He also tangled with the organization over the inclusion of \u2063LGBTQ+ material in a psychology course.<\/p>\n<p>The College Board has pushed back against the new test, criticizing as flawed \u2063a study meant to compare students&#8217; scores on the CLT with scores on the \u2064SAT.<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla Rodriguez, who runs the SAT program at the College Board, said the CLT emphasizes a particular type of learning and content, whereas the SAT is aimed at pinpointing the fundamental skills that students have developed in reading, writing, and math.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, lucrative scholarships\u2062 and coveted spots at\u200c university could go to students who\u2063 have \u2063studied the content emphasized in the CLT, even if they had lower overall reading and writing ability than some students who took the SAT, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tate, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-spraying-disinfectant-at-students-who-didnt-wear-masks-properly-faces-felony-child-abuse-charges\/\" title=\"Florida teacher arrested for allegedly spraying disinfectant at students who didn't wear masks properly, faces felony child abuse charges\">high school teacher<\/a> and college counselor who developed the CLT in\u2064 2015, \u2063said in an interview he was aiming to reflect the intellectual\u2063 rigor and focus on Western academic thought found\u200d in Jesuit and similar educational traditions.<\/p>\n<p>While Tate tends to be conservative, his test is not \u200dpolitical, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, it \u2062appears to be part of a broader reaction among many conservatives against what they see as a de-emphasis on parts of the Western canon.<\/p>\n<p>Tate said his ultimate goal was to restore the primacy of Western thought in education by developing tests that reward familiarity with Western philosophers and thinkers such as\u2063 Thomas Aquinas \u2062or Dante Alighieri, along with authors such as the black abolitionist \u200dand thinker Frederick Douglass and Southern U.S. female writer Flannery O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein\u200c in Sacramento, California; editing by Grant McCool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s public university system may adopt the Classic Learning Test (CLT), an entrance exam focused on classical Western thought. This move aligns with the state&#8217;s efforts to promote a more conservative education system. The Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida will discuss the CLT&#8217;s adoption on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2025795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}