bit earlier, we talked about the exciting changing coming to the s.a.t. to want sound smart, tell your friends in 1986, 58% of college admission test takers took the s.a.t. then only 49%, losing the majority to the a.c.t. did you take the a.c.t. or sa.t.? i didn t do well on the a.c.t. combined we could get into college. politics were part of the academy award this is year. 12 years a slave wins best picture, that s the first possibility. possibility number two, you re all racists. turns out it wasn t racism, but the subject matter. reports say at least two voters picked 12 years a slave as
school in the city and be graded at the same level? if i thought standardized tests actually were reflective of what people were doing, but people opposed to those things had a group kids take them back to back and the range was 150 points. you re talking about something different. you re making a very good point that within the a.c.t. or s.a.t., you may want to dig in and find out and make sure the questions are fair to the widest group of kids. rather than telling the colleges what they should or shouldn t be looking at. plus, it s a fairly low bar, what we re asking american students to pass. if they re going to be competitive with students from all around the world, passing the s.a.t. and a.c.t. is probably not that much to ask. i got the lowest score you could possibly get in the s.a.t. stay tuned for an update on the holiday travel situation. also coming up, six americans we should be very thankful for this thanksgiving. we might have lost the revolutionary war had it not