A pleasure to speak at Education Writers Association’s 2026 higher ed seminar. My panel was on college readiness. 3 key points I made:
🔹Standardized tests are valuable
🔹The national anti-testing movement has been an anti-evidence-based movement
🔹Journalists need to get out of information bubbles & talk to more people w/different views
Oh wow 😬
University of Michigan will HIDE first-semester grades on transcripts for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
It’s to “curb the mental health crisis”
AND
The policy is mandatory for all students bc “covering an individual’s grades will inadvertently become equated w/them not doing well in a class”