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Florida may become first state to accept a ‘classical’ alternative to the SAT and ACT (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Hellsadvocate to c/news

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Florida is considering becoming the first state to accept the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a conservative-aligned alternative to the SAT and ACT, for admissions at its public universities.
The CLT was created in 2015 and emphasizes humanities, morality, and classical literature. It has grown popular among Christian schools and conservative groups.
Florida's consideration follows conflict between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the College Board over a disputed AP course. DeSantis wants alternatives to College Board products like the SAT.
The CLT's founder says the test counters progressive influence in education. Critics argue it focuses on outdated methods and texts.
Supporters worry the test's growth in red states like Florida politicizes it as a conservative exam versus the SAT as more liberal.
If approved in Florida, the CLT would expand its reach significantly as an alternative to the dominant SAT/ACT. But some say its overall influence is still small compared to those major tests.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The CLT was created in 2015

But the summary fails to mention by whom. The article thankfully does.

It is developed by Classic Learning Initiatives. But the company doesn't have its own wikipedia page, despite clearly having written this page. The only name listed is the "creator" of the CLT Jeremy Tate; who also doesn't have his own Wikipedia page.

That's a lot of anonymity for the company that:

"orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition." - CLI Board Member and Professor of Theology Chad Pecknold

Tate, the founder and CEO of CLT said the College Board has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”.

Pecknord has previously described liberalism as a "religion" of "moral poverty" and called for "an all-embracing form of life coordinated and ordered to the love of God and neighbor"

They're hard-core Catholics trying to look generic Christian so they don't scare off the Evangelicals but also not so Christian they scare off the secular completely either.

Florida does it again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of scary Handmaid's Tale language just in those quotes. "Moral poverty," jfc.