Clarifying What I Thought Was Already A Clear Position

I did not invent the definition of college readiness that the College Board used. I am not “alleging” that only 10 percent of youths have an SAT score that meets that definition, based on the students at 41 major state and private universities. That’s an empirical finding. I am not saying that an SAT score lower than 1180 is a cognitive cutoff that prevents people from “succeeding” in college, if success is defined as getting a BA. I do not want to “radically shrink” the population of young people taking courses on college campuses—I think they are fine facilities for providing post-secondary education, and, in my ideal world, almost all high school graduates would get post-secondary education. I think italics are called for: I want students to have better alternatives than spending four years on those college campuses so that they can get a piece of paper called a BA.

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