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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – The State University System of Florida’s Board of Governors voted 13-1 Friday to adopt the Classic Learning Test (CLT) as an alternative admissions test to the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT), the latest development in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ work to reform public education in the Sunshine State.
The CLT “tests Verbal Reasoning (textual comprehension and analysis), Grammar/Writing (textual editing and improvement), and Quantitative Reasoning (logic and mathematic),” according to its website. It is distinguished from other entrance testing by its “use of the greatest and most enduring texts that have informed and shaped society,” classical works of Western literature, political theory, philosophy, and theology that used to define a liberal arts education.
“Instead of evaluating how much students have crammed for the test, CLT considers students’ intellectual capacity and aptitude, and puts them in front of meaningful pieces of literature that have stood the test of time,” the site says.
“The CLT makes greater use of classic texts from Western and world history, assigning excerpts from St. Augustine, Frederick Douglass, and Charles
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