Will Eliminating Standard Tests Really Reduce Racial Disparities In Education?

JONATHAN TURLEY. org ^ | 5-31-2021 | JONATHAN TURLEY

[ConservativeInPA]

It will not reduce disparities. Negroes have lower IQs than Caucasians and Asians. It can be expressed in the following inequality: Negro IQ < Caucasian IQ < Asian IQ

[doorgunner69]

legitimate courses especially the STEM disciplines will be targeted.

Seems I read about dropping teaching math courses because they are racissss.

[adorno]

"...joining a “test-blind” admissions movement nationally" All in the name of equality and equity.

Which is openly racial. It is making the statement that the brown and black races are less capable and less intelligent.

Blacks and other minorities should be feeling very insulted. It is the democrats who are indicating that blacks and Hispanics need to have their hands held for everything for their whole lives, as if they're children who can't compete in the world against whites.

It's a wonder that democrats are not keeping them in cages to keep them safe, and to prevent them from harming themselves.

[blam]

"Yes they will because without independent assessment of learning, teachers will be pressured to give everyone an "A". "

A college professor friend of mine who teaches chemistry says he is forced to use school grading software that won't allow him to give a failing grade.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nepe.

The Bell Curve is correct.

[poinq]

Testing is only useful if colleges wish to have high standards. But we all know that colleges are now dumping down their classes as well as their students. So the tests are no longer necessary. College degrees don’t mean as much as they once did. That is except if you are a white male without power, money or connections. Then it means the same.

[Fai Mao]

This is a con job. As population growth slows, universities need to maintain enrollment. If they say that and lower standards they lose accreditation and status. If they go woke they can’t be criticized.

[ctdonath2]

Those who can’t compete want the rules eliminated.
Cargo cults think the trappings of success _cause_ success, so demand their “fair share” - not realizing it’s productivity that wins, not possessions.

Take everything from a Donald Trump and give it all to a George Floyd, and pretty soon the Trump will re-acquire it all, while they Floyd is passing fakes & ODing. This is a truth incomprehensible to those who can’t compete ... which is why they can’t compete.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that the Pelosis,Clintons,Schumers,Bushes will always consult physicians and surgeons who've passed every test imaginable.

[LuxAerterna]

While we’re at it, Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Twitter need to ditch their notoriously difficult interview process. They should emulate their Democrat pals and hire people randomly or on a first come, first serve basis. They should also use this same process for promotions.

[pnut22]

From the other view the non qualified Harvard student might also have been a huge success in something he or she qualified for. Instead he is branded a failure at the ripe old age of 19.

[kjam22]

Instead of standardized tests….. maybe we could have one test for black kids and another test for white kids….

[thecodont]

Sums it up perfectly.

[BitWielder1]

No challenges no growth.
It will make racial disparities worse. Kids with parents who encourage studying, learning and hard work will have an advantage.
That's primarily White and Asian demographics. Too bad if you don't like to hear it.

And by learning, I mean retaining useful facts and skills, not just grades.

[Magic Fingers]

“The “affirmative admission” universities will find the same thing: just as great admission standards result in great graduates, poor admission standards result in poor graduates.”

This ^^^. The problem isn’t with the lack of education, it’s with the lack of learning (ability + desire).

[thecodont]

Soon, a college education will be no better than high school.

Not even that.

[EinNYC]

This is the classic Dimmocommie way of dealing with failure by their chosen people, people being groomed to be D voters. Can't pass a test? Eliminate the test. Can't uphold a law? Eliminate the law. Can't meet a requirement? Eliminate the requirement.

This is the mechanism to a society of stupid slugs--ideal Dimmocommie voters.

[Salman]

It will cover up disparities, and that's the whole point.

We now have a ruling class that really does not like literacy, but they can't openly say that.

[Cuttnhorse]

Good comments;

Thomas Sowell wrote about this decades ago...he maintained that black students with mediocre high school grades were better off starting in community college and then on to a state college system.

He stated that trying to quota unprepared minority kids in ivy league universities did nothing but promote self-inflected segregation where poorly performing students self-group and complain that the only reason they are flunking out was due to racism in the education system.

[vpintheak]

Free and easy loans, colleges get their money. Students fail out because they weren’t prepared. Next crop of students to fail out pops up next semester. Repeat cycle.
It’s a legal money laundering cycle for Dim Pinkos. Nothing more.