Carnegie Foundation & ETS Initiative: A National Initiative to Cut Academics

Goofy educational ideas spread like kudzu. Every morning, another instructional fad or excuse to lower standards needs uprooting. The latest sprout comes from a collaboration between the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). If it spreads, it could choke out our already wilting commitment to traditional, rigorous academics.

Way back in 1906, the former organization gave us the Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, and the latter outfit has for many decades administered a suite of standardized tests including the SAT and GRE. Together, they provide much of the infrastructure on which our education system runs — an infrastructure that they now seek to dismantle.

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Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Goofy educational ideas spread like kudzu. Every morning, another instructional fad or excuse to lower standards needs uprooting. The latest sprout comes from a collaboration between the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). If it spreads, it could choke out our already wilting commitment to traditional, rigorous academics.

Way back in 1906, the former organization gave us the Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, and the latter outfit has for many decades administered a suite of standardized tests including the SAT and GRE. Together, they provide much of the infrastructure on which our education system runs — an infrastructure that they now seek to dismantle.