CAN THE TAIL WAG THE DOG?

CAN THE TAIL WAG THE DOG?

Monday, February 29, 2016

  Can the tail wag the dog? If the tail is the College Board (CB) the answer is a definite “YES!”

  Never heard of the College Board? Many haven’t, but most know what Advanced Placement Exams SAT (1926) and PSAT (1955) are . . . and how a high school graduate’s scores on them influences and/or may determine their future.

  In 1899 three elite college prep schools and 12 leading colleges formed the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB, later simply CB) with the purpose of publishing an influential statement on what should be known of history and 10 other fields as a suitability test for admission to college. Today over 2600 colleges including most Christian colleges offer credit to applicants that do well on CB exams; hence CB is an unelected ad hoc national school board setting curriculum standards. And CB standards alterations move farther and farther away from the conservative Bible-based Christ-centered measure of this USA’s founding fathers and earlier schools.

  Any education whether home-based or outside of that use a curriculum or publisher’s books in response to CB tests are being wagged by their unofficial influence sans major competition other than startup (2011) ACT Inc. and most recently developing Vector ARC. Then since August one of our 2 major political parties passed a resolution condemning AP History standards.

  Additional awakening news is for-profit Lumerit and the entrepreneurial USA home-school community ( Now about 2,000,000 strong) have developed College Plus (CP). CP allows homeschoolers to take college courses online readily accepted by about 12 accredited partnering Christian colleges. Since 2004 about 10,000 students have earned up to 90 credit hours through CP.

  Also of note is that radical revisionist David Coleman, architect of Common Core, is the CB president earning $690,000 yearly.

  When I read the longer article on the aforementioned topic, I immediately reflected on God’s education standard of not conforming to this world’s mind (Rom.12:2) and His edification in the fact that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Eph.6:12)

  But isn’t wagging a friendly gesture? Absolutely, but being an experienced newspaper delivery boy I know that can be deceptive, isn’t it? (Mt.7:15-20)

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