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I don't know. But it's well known that this test is based on academic achievement and that low-income Asians do very well.
by crackercrews 3y ago
I don't know. But it's well known that this test is based on academic achievement and that low-income Asians do very well.
- smcin 3y agoonly if you live in NYC. If you don't live in NYC you won't ever have heard of it.
- crackercrews 3y agoThe test and controversy have been heavily covered in national media for years.
- smcin 3y agoI live in California, I read national media for decades, and I've never heard of it. When I google for it, the top-10 news hits for it are mostly NYPost, City Journal, NBC New York, NYDailyNews, also Manhattan Institute, TheNation. Even if you google "SHSAT site:latimes.com" you only get hits for NYT, etc. SFChronicle has only ever mentioned it once, and that was in 2021 in the context of the local (SF) debate about Lowell HS's entrance exam: (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-Lowell-isn-t-the-only-selective-school-15941488.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-Lowell-isn...). Googling "site:sfchronicle.com SHSAT" only has that one hit.