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I won’t flood you with the entire thing, but this list is worth a chuckle. And I’ll give you a taste. There are 75 points on the full list.

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College
Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape
the lives of students entering college…

Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991.

  1. For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
  2. Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been felons.
  3. The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
  4. They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
  5. Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.
  6. Salsa has always outsold ketchup.

Let me start this post saying two things.

1. This blog post came out of a discussion on the Homeschool2college discussion list.  It is a highly focused list that the moderator keeps on subject.   That said, I highly recommend the list for anyone planning (or trying) to homeschool through high school and into college.

2. I am no expert and I’m sure I’m going to get something wrong in the details – hopefully someone will find this overview helpful as a starting point.

Okay,  the question that got me started was from someone getting ready to homeschool through highschool and trying to get a handle on what the different tests were that they may need deal with.  They were asking about a couple of tests in particular, but I’m going to cover more than that.

There are WAAAAY too many tests that any high schooler (even the brick and mortar ones) have to deal with.  Some you can ignore, some are really optional in most situations, and some you are going to have to take.

Just to list them, you have:

COMPASS

GED

PSAT

SAT Reasoning Test

ACT

SAT Subject Tests

AP Tests

CLEP  Tests

Just too many letters.

The general rules of thumb that I’ve heard over and over is that a – you don’t want to have to take everything all at once; try to spread them out.  and b – when in doubt about what you need, ASK THE COLLEGE!  Of course, if you have an 8th grader that has no idea of what and where they want to study, then that answer seems useless.  I’ve sort of dealt with that issue when I posted about planning high school and the same logic works.

So, let’s look at the different tests… Read the rest of this entry »

A step in the right direction

OTH, trying it out on 10,000 kids might not be easy.

 The change that’s getting by far the most attention is the decision to do away with traditional grade levels – for kids younger than eighth grade, this first year, though the district plans to phase in the reform through high school a year at a time. Ultimately, there will be 10 multiage levels, rather than 12 grades, and students might be in different levels depending on the subject. They’ll move up only as they demonstrate mastery of the material.

Yeah, but this is kind of what I was thinking:

 It’s also unclear what will happen if large numbers of kids arrive in high school still unable to demonstrate proficiency in certain subjects, like math, and a bottleneck gets created. Since no student can move forward without a “B” equivalent, it’s also essentially impossible for students to have lower than a 3.0 GPA, which could be a challenge to explain to colleges. 

I’m not sure if I’m understanding this right.  It seems to me that if they aren’t proficient, then they shouldn’t have that “B”.  And I was thinking of the bottleneck in other direction of kids NOT getting into high school even if their ages put them there.

And the whole GPA thing is kind of what homeschoolers have to explain when we build transcripts for college.  If they can understand it coming from us, I think they can handle it.

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