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College Basketball Coaches Call for End to ACT, SAT Requirement. Leaders say the tests hurt poor and minority students, ask NCAA to make ‘immediate decision’
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 16, 2020 | Rachel Bachman

Posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov

The nation’s leading men’s college basketball coaches’ association has called the SAT and ACT “longstanding forces of institutional racism” and wants them eliminated from use in determining athletes’ eligibility.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches made the move three days after naming its first-ever Black executive director, the former Division I coach Craig Robinson. It also came the month after the organization formed a Committee on Racial Reconciliation, co-chaired by Harvard coach Tommy Amaker and South Carolina coach Frank Martin.

The committee believes the two standardized tests “no longer have a place in intercollegiate athletics or higher education at large,” Amaker and Martin said in a joint statement Thursday. “This is an important step toward combating educational inequality in our country.”

The NCAA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokesman for the College Board, which oversees the SAT, denied that the test is discriminatory and said that any objective measure of student achievement would shine a light on inequalities in the education system. He added that the College Board has asked colleges to equally consider students for admission who are unable to take the test due to Covid-19, and supports the NCAA reexamining its eligibility requirements.

A spokesperson for the ACT didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The NCAA requires incoming athletes in Division I or II sports to complete a series of requirements to be deemed academically eligible, including earning a qualifying score on either the ACT or SAT.

A proposal that accompanied the NABC news release Thursday noted the wider trend already under way to move away from the tests. Many four-year colleges and universities, including those in the Ivy League and Duke and Stanford, won’t require the tests for admissions in 2021.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: act; blackduncesmatter; collegebasketball; education; ncaa; sat
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I don't see why the SAT or ACT should be required for college basketball players when many schools have gone for "test-optional" admissions. But colleges should not be going test-optional. Standardized tests are being given in high school testing sites this fall -- my son has signed up for them. When high school grades mean less due to being partially pass/fail (our high school made the 4th quarter pass/fail and did not give final exams), standardized tests are needed to assess the ability to do college level work. Does anyone still care about that?
1 posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov
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I always look to college basketball coaches for guidance


2 posted on 07/17/2020 3:55:22 AM PDT by wny
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btt


3 posted on 07/17/2020 3:55:40 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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If that is to be the case, then sports should be removed from all Colleges.

We would call putting non-collegiate qualified people on their sports teams, ringers in a sane world.

And that's been going on for decades.

Colleges are for learning.


4 posted on 07/17/2020 3:56:04 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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lol

Why stop there.

Make passing grades optional. Or..

Make going to class optional.

Hell, make actually attending that school optional.

What the ####. Might as go all the way.


5 posted on 07/17/2020 3:57:30 AM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: bagster

Colleges WERE for learning; now they are businesses, and jobs programs for those with no marketable skills.


6 posted on 07/17/2020 3:58:40 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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> Colleges are for learning.

You’re quite the optimist, aren’t you?

Colleges are for indoctrinating. It’s pretty clear.


7 posted on 07/17/2020 3:58:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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TRANSLATION: “The mutants who make millions of dollars for NCAA schools but don’t get paid a dime for it are dumber than bricks, so it’s racist to make them take academic tests.”


8 posted on 07/17/2020 3:59:45 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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IQ really is racist.

That said, just stop the charade that the basketball players are (generally) actually students. Pay them. Give the handful that want a degree (and can earn one) the ability to get one.


9 posted on 07/17/2020 3:59:53 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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You’re quite the optimist, aren’t you? Colleges are for indoctrinating. It’s pretty clear.

When I am King, all things will be made right.

When I am King.


10 posted on 07/17/2020 4:02:51 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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New test:

1) Can you place a ball in a desired place or stop someone from doing so?
2) If so, you in
3) if not, getz outta here whitey!


11 posted on 07/17/2020 4:03:28 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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“The nation’s leading men’s college basketball coaches’ association has called the SAT and ACT “longstanding forces of institutional racism” and wants them eliminated..”

Jesus, the Marxists have even penetrated the college coaching ranks!


12 posted on 07/17/2020 4:03:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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"IQ really is racist."

I disagree. What do you mean by that?

13 posted on 07/17/2020 4:03:44 AM PDT by karpov
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College Basketball coaches are idiots.
14 posted on 07/17/2020 4:05:52 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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If you disagree with what I said, then you presumably understand what I said.


15 posted on 07/17/2020 4:07:03 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: wny

LMAO.


16 posted on 07/17/2020 4:08:40 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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Yes, why even go to college? Just go straight to the NBA. Maybe the NBA should start farm teams like major league baseball has.


17 posted on 07/17/2020 4:11:02 AM PDT by Cecily
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why even have them attend highschool? just recruit at any ghetto basketball court.


18 posted on 07/17/2020 4:12:05 AM PDT by Craftmore
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I guess we should just eliminate all standards.


19 posted on 07/17/2020 4:12:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: karpov

The Left never lets an opportunity go to waste.


20 posted on 07/17/2020 4:12:55 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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