Author: Eyder Peralta

NPR’s Eyder Peralta speaks with University of California, Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova about efforts to bring back standardized exams as part of the admissions process. EYDER PERALTA, HOST: The University of California stopped requiring the SAT for admissions in 2020, in the middle of the COVID pandemic when it was hard to even take the test. Now some professors are desperate to get it back. They say a glut of unprepared students are sitting in their classes, draining their teaching resources. Zvezdelina Stankova is a math professor at the University of California, Berkeley and has been urging administrators to…