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Do you mean the article, or the non-asian voices in it? I felt the article itself presented a fair picture of the sentiments from each corner, though I'm not p
by yohui 14y ago
Do you mean the article, or the non-asian voices in it?
I felt the article itself presented a fair picture of the sentiments from each corner, though I'm not particularly sensitive to bias.
As for the complaints about test-centrism, I felt they were echoing a belief that life should be and success is about more than cramming and solo achievement.
Extracurriculars, grades, and fuzzy-wooly essays/recommendations may be as strong metrics as standardized testing, but neither are our current tests nearly as good indicators as they could be.
For example, we could do more to promote problem-solving skills by providing test-takers with a much larger corpus, promote a minimum level of teamwork by allowing some collaborative problems, etc. Just some ideas.