Is standardized testing a pillar of systemic racism?

Why do you need to come up with an incoherent set of ideas to change society, to change its hierarchies?

Why would one choose to get rid of objective standards to remove bias?

Learn about what those against standardized testing mean when they say “bias” and about the flaws in the arguments being used to successfully remove the use of standardized tests up to the college level.

 

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This video was prompted by this tweet: https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1366873281576452098

The racist beginning of standardized testing linked to in the tweet, the current argument made by many – https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing

This page actually has more direct sources https://www.nea.org/resource-library/essa-and-testing

Lists 1350+ colleges that are optional in terms of standardized tests in US https://www.fairtest.org/test-scores-do-not-equal-merit-executive-summary

https://www.fairtest.org/more-half-all-us-colleges-and-universities-are-alr

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/1/30/harvard-lifts-testing-requirement-class-of-2026/

I thought this was a good breakdown of the pros and cons of standardized testing – https://www.thoughtco.com/examining-the-pros-and-cons-of-standardized-testing-3194596

https://reports.collegeboard.org/archive/sat-suite-program-results/2019/class-2019-results

https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2019-total-group-sat-suite-assessments-annual-report.pdf btw the gender breakdown is interesting.

Just articles I found for a more global perspective

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/case-global-standardized-testing

https://www.insider.com/standardized-tests-around-the-world-2018-9#brazil-has-some-controversy-surrounding-exams-7

I couldn’t read the entire thing, as I don’t have an account, but it
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-history-of-standardized-testing.html

Reading and math scores, I’m not sure of the year. http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2043378,00.html