{"id":18433,"date":"2025-11-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/podcast\/refining-rhetoric-is-this-a-tweet-or-the-sat-why-students-need-the-clt\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:00:00","slug":"refining-rhetoric-is-this-a-tweet-or-the-sat-why-students-need-the-clt","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/podcast\/refining-rhetoric-is-this-a-tweet-or-the-sat-why-students-need-the-clt\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining Rhetoric: Is This a Tweet or the SAT?! Why Students Need the CLT"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if the test gatekeeping college admissions was designed to celebrate\u2014not undermine\u2014your classical education? Discover how one alternative is changing the game for homeschoolers and classical students across America. In this milestone episode, Robert Bortins sits down with Soren Schwab (VP of Partnerships) and Noah Tyler (CFO) from the Classical Learning Test to celebrate 10 years of offering an alternative to the College Board’s monopoly. The conversation opens with a stunning revelation: after hiring David Coleman\u2014the chief architect of Common Core\u2014in 2015, the College Board transformed the SAT so dramatically that its longest reading passage is now between 25-125 words. That’s literally the length of a tweet. This is what “college readiness” has become.<\/p>\n

The CLT offers something radically different: Instead of politically biased content and tweet-length passages, students engage with C.S. Lewis, Aristotle, Dickens, and Abraham Lincoln. Parents report their children actually asking to read more after encountering authors on the test\u2014something that would never happen with the SAT or ACT. And because homeschoolers can take it from home through video proctoring, test anxiety is significantly reduced.<\/p>\n

What You’ll Learn:<\/p>\n