Missouri still wants students to take the PSAT:
High school students who want to get a National Merit Scholarship through MU won’t have to worry about the university following the actions of the University of California System. The six-campus California system announced July 13 that it will redirect funding for the National Merit Scholarship program to other merit-based scholarships. The shift in funding will begin with freshmen entering the system in the fall of 2006...Steven Osterlind, a professor of education at MU who studies standardized testing, said he’s not surprised by the University of California’s decision. “They’ve been talking about it for quite some time,” he said.
Osterlind said the California system stopped sponsoring the scholarships because the PSAT doesn’t produce the number of minority students that the California system wanted.
Wow. And I thought I was being blunt on this topic.
Posted by kswygert at July 21, 2005 08:20 PM