> I’m very concerned about how our welcome push for equity and representation has been evolving from pulling underachieving people up to pushing overachieving p

> I’m very concerned about how our welcome push for equity and representation has been evolving from pulling underachieving people up to pushing overachieving people down. I would be interested in seeing any historical evidence for this, because I’m a bit skeptical. This is something that swings back and forth, based on the location where you live and what happens to be popular. I remember advanced classes being pulled in the early 1990s. Then at some point, focus returns to the gifted students. Then you get No Child Left Behind. It seems to be partly a cycle and partly just a bunch of unintended consequences. > You see this in the deemphasis on testing outcomes (SAT for example). SAT isn’t a good test. GRE is worse. They should be deemphasized.