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The issues here are playing out in California as well: - removal of merit-based admissions for Lowell High School - removal of SAT for admissions to Universit
by rahimnathwani 5y ago
The issues here are playing out in California as well:
- removal of merit-based admissions for Lowell High School
- removal of SAT for admissions to University of California
- restriction of advanced math in the California Math Framework 2021
These will all reduce the link between ability/effort and measures of achievement.
So they will tend to reduce inequality of outcomes, by making outcomes more random. If you see university degrees as a scarce good (e.g. mainly a signalling device), to be allocated evenly among the population, then this may seem like a win.
For those who care about improved academic achievement, or more/better learning, these changes are a step back.
- naveen99 5y agoAnyone else think the math portion of SAT is too easy already? I wish they would add regular expressions in there.
- naveen99 5y agoApparently 25% of students at Carnegie Mellon get a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT. They aren’t trying very hard to make all the questions count… I mean why not make the exam shorter / fewer questions if you don’t want the fine granularity.