It did not “weed out minorities,” it weeded out those who lacked to requite skills to teach what they were being hired to teach.
Am important distinction.
The solution isn't to drop the test - the solution is to test MORE minorities.
Test 200 black 'teachers' and you'll get an average of 81 people passing the test. Test 100 white 'teachers' and you'll get 64 passing. Bingo - MORE black teachers qualified to be hired. It's simple - just do the math.
(46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.+
The solution isn't to drop the test - the solution is to test MORE minorities.
Test 200 black 'teachers' and you'll get an average of 81 people passing the test. Test 100 white 'teachers' and you'll get 64 passing. Bingo - MORE black teachers qualified to be hired. It's simple - just do the math. Surely Karen Matthews is smart enough to ask about this, right?
(46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.+
You hit the nail on the head with force.
“It did not “weed out minorities,” it weeded out those who lacked to requite skills to teach what they were being hired to teach”.
The test weeds out incompetent teachers who disproportionately are minorities. The SAT test is no longer used much for college admissions because minorities disproportionaltely score poorly. The same goes for civil service tests for firemen, police, etc. We can send people to the moon and back but we cant seem to develop a test where certain minorities perform as well as whites. Maybe that’s why saying “the most qualified candidate should get the job” is now considered racist.