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If someone wants to misinterpret something there is no way to stop them, but I don't see how this is genuinely misleading to a fair reader.

Do you think because he uses the word "tests" he is implying that the CB report says just take the tests without taking the classes? Do you think that the CB report isn't actually pushing AP tests because they are just pushing "AP or honors classes"? Neither of those strike me as plausible interpretations. I won't quote the same piece of the CB report a third time, but that section really makes "speculative reasons" something a of a soft-sell as to how hard the CB report is pushing its "characteristics". If those characteristics aren't supposed to be causally related to success, why is the report pushing them as the blueprint for our children?

I'm not holding the NR piece up for any special praise, but I'd like to know where you get your opinion journalism if this is an egregious example.

I'll leave the field to you.

http://xkcd.com/386/

It's genuinely misleading because it never happened. The claim that "college-ready students took more AP tests" is a Richwine fabrication. The SAT report says no such thing. It does say that more college-ready students took rigorous classwork, with AP and honors classes lumped together. Taking an AP class does not necessarily mean taking the AP test.

He's correct about the PSAT, though. And he's WAYYYYYY off base with the "core curriculum" comment, as ultramarina has already described.


Opinion journalism? Sweet. I love oxymorons, and that's a new one to me.

To answer your question, though (although it wasn't addressed to me), I prefer actual journalism, and form my own opinions. I'm not really interested in pre-processed ideology... it loses a lot of its nutrients and flavor.

This.


I'm a journalist, and I do the kind of work Richwine claims to have done here all the time--that is, I condense lengthy reports into user-friendly soundbites. I would never do what he did in this piece (for one thing, it would be a fireable offense). Is it the worst journalistic misdeed of all time? No. But it's intentionally misleading.

Emphasis added in quote above to highlight that you may have answered your own question/challenge.

Breaking it down, by simple substitution of the words "each subject" and "each grade" in the Common Core definition you provided, with the actual list of core curriculum you provided as being sourced from College Board, we have:
Four or more years of English
1) what students should know and be able to do in English, grade 9.
2) what students should know and be able to do in English, grade 10.
3) what students should know and be able to do in English, grade 11.
4) what students should know and be able to do in English, grade 12.
Three or more years of Mathematics
5) what students should know and be able to do in Math, grade 9-10band.
6) what students should know and be able to do in Math, grade 10-11band.
7) what students should know and be able to do in Math, grade 11-12band.
Three or more years of Natural Science
8) what students should know and be able to do in Science, grade 9-10band.
9) what students should know and be able to do in Science, grade 10-11band.
10) what students should know and be able to do in Science, grade 11-12band.
Three or more years of Social Science and History
11) what students should know and be able to do in SocSci/Hst, grade 9-10band.
12) what students should know and be able to do in SocSci/Hst, grade 10-11band.
13) what students should know and be able to do in SocSci/Hst, grade 11-12band.

These are not disparate items. These may be described as two interlocking puzzle pieces from the same puzzle. Viewed from a distance: one piece. Viewed closely: a union of adjoining pieces.

Dude, these statements made my day. I'm with you.

Agreed! Many people errantly presume the AP test is a requisite part of an AP class. Possibly this author has exposed a lack of familiarity with AP, other than what he has read and tried to analyze and synthesize from these reports. In which case some may believe that a simple pointing out of the error would suffice, without alleging malfeasance.

Growth mindset. We are all learning. We learn from each other. We all make misteaks.

Me, too!

There is actually an Association of Opinion Journalists, and a Wikipedia page last updated Sept 19 2013 which describes opinion journalism in part as featuring

It beggar's belief that opinion journalism is new to any informed adult. Also, the notion that you get "actual journalism" from which you can form opinions uncorrupted by biases is naive in the extreme.

I'll just stop reading this thread so I can't be trolled back in again.

I was referring to the phrase, thanks.


Speaking of claims nobody made... this.

I also don't believe that I can obtain drinking water that is uncorrupted by impurities, but that's not the same thing as drinking from the sewer.