New York State is getting rid of the Regents exams for its public school systems in the 27/28 school year. For those not following along, the Regents exams are intended to show baseline competence in core subjects. In competitive academics, they’re a non-entity, easily passed, and go entirely unreferenced when preference is for SATs, ACTs and so on.
But wait, it gets stupider.
Rather than pass the Regents exams to graduate:
The state is transitioning to a graduation system centered on six high-level attributes, including critical thinking and effective communication, with students demonstrating their learning through a wider range of experiences and assessments.
I know these attributes are “high-level” because the news copy says they are, mmmkay?
The people in charge of public education in New York instead want students to “form a portrait” of what public school graduates “should look like.”
Creeped out yet?
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