For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about SATs, they are way less prone to class privilege than having to found an NGO in high school
Is this some kind of viral marketing stunt to juice sales of Jerry Karabel's The Chosen?https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/10/top-private-high-schools-start-campaign-kill-traditional-transcripts-and-change#.WRM1wPkUbCp.mailto …
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Funniest line is the idea that it will scale. As a friend said to me, imagine a large public high school crafting qualitative evals.
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If you read the piece you see inefficiency isn't a bug, it's a feature: it's transparently a make-work proposal for administrators.
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If portfolios replace grades you will see two macro effects: 1) greater class reproduction 2) lower fertility for college-educated women
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the whole idea of this kind of admissions tests was explicitly to keep jews out of ivy league schools, since they did so well on testing
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Yes, hence my reference to Karabel. Likewise UC switched to holistic admissions after a ballot initiative barred affirmative action.
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My wife went to a top school in china b/c she got the best score on some standardized test. Can't do that in america.
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China provides one of the only examples of minimal class reproduction in education. Careful what you wish for http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/231212?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …
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I find it fascinating that these "masters" are expected to be literate in the history of other cultures, but not their own.
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That's how you can tell that this absurdly regressive approach thinks it's woke. Besides, it's not like western civ has influenced the world
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Gen Z and their parents are made of different stuff than the Millenials. If the rankings aren't clear and merit based, I'd expect pushback.
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