Those of you who know me know that one of my hobbies is sport testing (registering for and taking official admission tests for sport and research, not to apply to school). Between 1990 and 2024, I estimate I took the SAT ten times (and often blogged about it), the GMAT maybe a dozen times, the GRE three items, and the LSAT twice. Oddly, I’ve never taken the ACT, but maybe they’ll invite me to take it for free.
This year the Classic Learning Test (CLT) has been making a lot of noise and, since I still tutor all the major admissions tests, I figured it was time to find out more about this unfortunately acronymed test. The good news was it’s also offered online at-home (the ACT and SAT aren’t at home tests yet), so it’s really easy to scratch my intellectual itch. So I paid $69 and got ready to learn about the clt.
Beyond the Headlines: A Review of Miracle Children
It’s rare these days that I have the time and mental capacity to read a book. Like many of us, my attention span has suffered in the social media era. But when I was sent a preview copy of Katie Benner and Erica L. Green’s Miracle Children, I couldn’t put it down! If you love learning the backstory behind scandals, this book is for you. If you’re interested in American education, this story is for you. If you constantly ask “how did we get here” regarding the hunger games of college admission, this book is for you.
Continue reading “Beyond the Headlines: A Review of Miracle Children”What is a good college?
We need to have a serious discussion about what we call a “good college.” Having recently gone through the college application process with my oldest child—and now starting it again with my youngest—I’ve been thinking a lot about choosing a college and what makes a good college. We need to reconsider the better define what and who gets to define a best, top, good, or (god-forbid) elite colleges. Who can we trust to tell us which colleges are best? How should a family define what makes a college “best”? Is it the educational experience, rankings, social life, brand/reputation, cost, or something else entirely?
Let’s explore this …
Large Language Models (misnamed AI) are Not Intelligent
AI is not intelligent.
At least not yet. The large language models (colloquially, and incorrectly, referred to as artificial intelligence) that we currently have are not Max Headroom, Skynet, Sunny, Data/Lore, Terminator, or CP3O. They aren’t even WOPR/Joshua (and if you don’t know all the listed AIs, you and I can’t be friends). They are not thinking machines. They are fancy google searches. If we think of them that way we’ll likely get better use out of them. If you make your students/children understand that, they will likely rely on them for more appropriate tasks.
Bellowings 
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