#hateread candidate because of the terrible tablecloth picture and the inaccuracies in the article | The Hill: Bring back standardized tests — for fairness
i aint doing much right now..
Let's start, as you always should in the opinion pieces, with investigating the author.
looks like a serial entrepreneur and journalist/author with no particular experience in college admissions/counseling or testing expertise who is now a lawyer . . . hmmm
also the first couple of grafs tell us this article is going to be a lot of hand-wringing hyperbole
His snarling elitism is evident in the schools he mentions and the dismissive way he mentions NYU. . .
He might as well have just summed it up by saying "How dare Stanvard allow the unwashed masses to apply to the pure ivory halls. They'll turn it into educational hobo jungles"
Here we go ... here is where the true colors really start to show and the inaccuracies appear. His characterization of cutoffs is demonstrably wrong.
He's seemingly a founding member of #QAdmit assuming all Black/brown students admitted are unqualified.
aside: If you want some perspective on the Harvard case read this thread.
And here it is.. the pretend nod to the value of letting in anyone not rich and white but not at the expense of the system that excludes them because its ... merit.
I'd love to see this guys article decrying legacy and donors..
meh I'm done
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Also that grade inflation trope showed so here is a thread to consider
#racistedu fashion edition | UPDATE: Edmond Public Schools rep will not comment on if teacher disciplined for allegedly calling student’s ‘Black King’ T-shirt racist kfor.com/news/local/edm…
attaching a branch of #racistedu back to the main trunk |
#racistedu | Georgia High School Teacher Tells Students Breonna Taylor Was Responsible for her Death, Under Investigation [VIDEO] ibtimes.sg/A000EXC?utm_so…
#nowreading “Over the past decade,” Ruth S. Barrett writes, “the for-profit ecosystem that has sprouted up around athletic recruiting at top-rung universities has grown so excessively ornate, so circular in its logic, that it’s become self-defeating.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Even before i dig into the article let me add a few images
Keep in mind that CT is one of the richest states in the union
Let's explore the biggest lie the testing agencies ever convinced America of:
"without the SAT ACT, I would have never gotten into college, graduated, or had any future"
(thread)
You see this narrative over and over and over in anecdatal stories about the test "providing" opportunity.
Here's one from a professor brave enough to tell his story under a pseudonym | How the ACT and SAT Help Disadvantaged Students Get Into College chronicle.com/article/how-th…