Thursday, May 30, 2019

Adam Smith Reveals the Rub in the SAT’s "Adversity Score" - Foundation for Economic Education

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  • The new ECD score is based on factors such as the student's neighborhood crime levels, poverty, and schools.

"...Mark Pulliam, in an essay for Law & Liberty, calls it "redlining in reverse," referring to the now-banned practice of banks refusing to make loans based on applicants' zip codes.
Ava Woychuk-Mlinac, in an opinion piece for The Hill, argues that to take seriously the College Board's "solution" to inequality "is to further institutionalize a system that normalizes educational inequity; it is to resign ourselves to not strive for a better solution."...
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