Although colleges can no longer employ racial preferences in admissions, several legal scholars said they believe schools can still consider race in recruiting strategies. The Supreme Court, in turning away another recent legal challenge, has also signaled — at least for now — that it’s permissible for colleges to pursue diversity as an end goal so long as racial preferences aren’t the means to achieve it. Of the scenarios we’ve shown, an expanded recruiting strategy requires the most work from colleges. But it’s also “the big overlooked gold mine here,” said Richard Sander, a law professor a ..read more

Although I was ranked third in my middle school, I still thought the SHSAT was too biased and I lacked support and tutoring. Had I not been admitted to LaGuardia, I may not have gotten into college and began my path to success. How many others like me have slipped through the cracks? https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-specialized-high-schools-must-open-up-20230730-wgl2ievjrve7bhq5yqmf5grnyu-story.html … The post Make education fairer for all: Specialized high schools must open up appeared first on SHSAT Sunset ..read more

These notoriously difficult questions sometimes include material that isn’t covered in public school curricula, Lee said, lending an unfair advantage to students with access to private tutoring. He added that while it was “a personal choice” for parents and children to seek tutoring, many feel forced to do so due to the intense competition to do well in the exam. The ministry “seeks to break the vicious cycle of private education that increases the burden for parents and subsequently erodes fairness in education,” Lee vowed. … The post South Korea is cutting ‘killer questions’ from an 8-hour ..read more

after 4,050 test takers received an offer based on their test scores, the city extended offers to 855 students to participate this summer in the Discovery program. (Not everyone who gets invited into the program will accept the offer or end up enrolling at a specialized high school.) Nearly 60%, or 509, of the participants in this year’s Discovery program were Asian American, according to city data. That’s even higher than the share of Asian Americans who got offers to specialized high schools based on the SHSAT, which was about 53%. … The post Black and Latino enrollment in NYC specialized ..read more

While talent helps, students also need knowledge, expertise and polish to get into dozens of New York City public school arts programs that use auditions and portfolios to screen applicants. Although these schools have largely escaped the rancorous debate over selective admissions policies, they raise many of the same concerns about equity, class and race. https://citylimits.org/2023/05/09/at-new-yorks-other-selective-public-schools-auditions-for-9th-grade/… The post At New York’s Other Selective Public Schools: Auditions for 9th Grade  appeared first on SHSAT Sunset ..read more

Assuming Massey is right that segregation is the vehicle “through which Black poverty is transmitted and reproduced,” policymakers of good will face the enormous and perhaps insuperable task of restoring integration to center stage while somehow avoiding the political and logistical errors that characterized busing and affirmative action in the past. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/opinion/school-integration-segregation.html… The post Who’s Afraid of Integration? A Lot of People, Actually. appeared first on SHSAT Sunset ..read more

But perhaps the most consequential feature of Black segregated schools in the United States is that they are mostly high-poverty schools. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a staggering 72.4 percent of Black eighth graders attend a high-poverty school, compared with only 31.3 percent of white students, subjecting a mind-boggling number of Black students to the well-known adverse effects of concentrated poverty.16 Concentrations of poverty are associated with higher levels of endemic violence, higher levels of stress, less exposure to the cultural capital needed for upward mobil ..read more

Despite these grim odds, young Indians continue arriving in Kota, and the coaching institutes have become a big business, encompassing 300 or so centers that generate $350 million to $450 million in revenue every year, according to one estimate. The largest coaching company, the Allen Career Institute, instructs more than one million students. “There are two types of students in Kota — rankers and bankers,” Amit Gupta, a coaching-center biology instructor, told me. “One ranker will attract thousands of bankers. This is our modus operandi. … The post Cram City appeared first on SHSAT Sunset ..read more

While the share of Black and Latino students taking the test increased this year by more than five percentage points, to almost 47% of test-takers, that did not translate into more students earning a score high enough to qualify for admission. (There is no cut-off score for admission. Rather, offers are based on ranked scores, starting with those earning the highest marks.) Almost 28,000 students took the entrance test this year — 4,000 more than last year. https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/6/15/23169817/nyc-specialized-high-school-admissions-offers-2022… The post NYC’s specialized high schools ..read more

Appellee appears to recognize that controlling precedent foreclosed a finding of discriminatory intent, but nevertheless invited the district court to misapply the law in furtherance of its attempt to change the law to prevent schools across the country from removing known barriers to opportunity and adopting race-neutral, research-based reforms to promote equality. NAACPLDF Amicus Using past results as a baseline is not only improper, it is woefully misleading. As the district court in Boston Parent correctly noted, when a racial group has been significantly overrepresented in the prior sys ..read more