Students attending U.S. military academies and those operating under the Department of Defense Education Activity may soon be able to satisfy government testing mandates with an updated exam that emphasizes traditional math and the Great Books, the Federalist reported on Tuesday.
The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act that is making its way through Congress will mandate that DODEA schools offer students in 11th grade the college admissions test of their parent’s choice. The change would permit students to take the Classic Learning Test, an alternative to the SAT and ACT college entry exams. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., first proposed the legislation this past spring.
Roughly 70,000 children attend DODEA schools that are on U.S. military facilities throughout the globe.
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