Posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov
The nations leading mens 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 didnt 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 didnt 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, wont require the tests for admissions in 2021.
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The dopey yutes can play in the NBA G 9ex D) league
Um... is he not Michelle Obama's brother? I see where the NABC is then.
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.
So how did Amaker get in to Duke?!
What’s next. No MCAT for future doctors, I kid you not. I mean many blacks are disenfranchised from the medical profession because of these racist expectations that you actually can read. I hate Democrat Amerika.
Like the D league that already exists? Not sure they can sign right out of high school though.
What do the coaches care, we’ve shut down all sports.
Ninety-nine per cent of college basketball players do not make it to the NBA. For that ninety-nine, they may as well get an education.
The NBA has a farm system of sorts; it is called the D League (development).
Dumb down the colleges that way they won’t have to be paid as much.
All the tests consistently show that minorities do poorly. Instead of scrapping the tests, look at what the tests are telling us, and then act accordingly.
Letting them get away without studying leads to low scores. Giving them extra points for being a minority allows them to stop studying, knowing that they will be accepted anyway.
Obviously it's RACIST!
Pandering to Thug Inc. has gone on too long and is deleterious to our nation.
“...Teacher dont teach much of worth anymore and standardized test show that....”
I understand many teachers in public schools use work books to teach. They merely hand out books for the kids to use each day. Little to no actual teaching goes on as in our day. Yet, they scream for more and more money.
I have no personal knowledge and was told this by neighborhood kids talking on the front porch one day last summer.
They are focusing on subjects, like math and English that are not taught. They need to test on Gender, minority rights and environmentalism.
How does showing a person that they are an uneducated idiot hurt them? They hurt themselves.
Brawndo. .. It has electrolytes. .... It’s what plants crave. ...
So your saying Mikechelle Obama is his brother?
Just give any dumbs... a college degree from a prestigious university because they can dribble a ball.
Black jocks won’t learn because the act of learning takes mental energy required to execute the coach’s plans.
Cultural analysis
That’s the solution !
Colleges & universities can license their names to the teams so the revenue streams continue. (If there are any, many football programs lose money !)
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