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FL Universities To Accept "Christian SAT" Test Results - Joe.My.God. (www.joemygod.com)

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Florida’s public universities will now permit the Classic Learning Test in admissions, offering a conservative-backed alternative to the SAT and ACT. Florida is now the first state university system in the country to allow for the Classic Learning Test (CLT), which has gained recent popularity among the state’s Christian and charter schools.

The classical education model — not to be confused with “classics” or “classical humanities” — focuses on a return to “core values” and the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The Florida state university system’s board of governors on Friday approved the test for use in undergraduate admissions.

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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's done regionally, unfortunately, and I expect that whichever one accredits schools in the South is going to quickly be taken over by conservative jackasses if it hasn't been already.

(OTOH, employers and graduate programs are free to assign whatever level of credibility they wish to any given university's diploma)

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, like a FL under grad seeking a Master's in New England? GTFO

[–] ElleChaise@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I've been wondering, can't other states essentially ‘lock in’ participants of schools abusing the system? If you want to go to god school, you can only use that education in god land with the fairy folk, the rest of us on Earth can simply deny the legitimacy of those credentials in real education settings, forcing real changes; or at least keeping the crazy at arms length.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's how accrediitadtion is supposed to work. We shall see, I guess.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That is incorrect. Universities are a collection of colleges and each college is accreted individually by a national accreditation board. So in north America colleges of engineering are accredited by ABET.

While I was getting my ABET accredited engineering degree my university was launching a new college of medicine. They were new so unaccredited and had to do a ton of work to get the program accredited.

One of the best ways to avoid scam schools is to check if the degree is accreted by the respective organization for the field.

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it really? I'm only familiar with ABET, which is national, but only for engineering and technology. I figured other subjects would have similar accreditation boards. Surely some other fields like medical and law do?

[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The schools institutional accreditation is different from program accreditation.

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does institutional accreditation matter in the face of program accreditation?

[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You probably don’t have one without the other and national institutional accreditation used to be the hallmark of online scam schools. But I don’t know, I’m not a universityologist.