[libertylover]

standardized tests put minority and low-income students at a disadvantage, in part because of test questions that can contain inherent bias which more privileged children are better equipped to answer.

A real journalist would demand examples. But, see Tagline.

[IrishBrigade]

‘A real journalist would demand examples.’

one example I heard was the term ‘regatta’, referring to yacht racing; the supposition was that an inner city black kid wouldn’t have any idea what such a thing is, never having seen one...

but I’ve never attended a regatta either, and I don’t know anyone who owns a yacht, so why would it automatically follow that I would know what a regatta is, and a black kid wouldn’t...

it’s a complete denial of the value of learning that which you haven’t experienced, which I have always been told is the purpose of schooling in the first place...

[absalom01]

Standardized tests do the exact opposite of what Cal State is claiming, and the “inherent bias” argument is mostly garbage. There’s a desire to go back to a version of the previous method of admitting kids to higher education opportunities, ie, selecting the “right people”. But in this case, that means “not WASPS” and “not Asians”, rather than the old days of “not too many Jews”.

Nothing is perfect, but the push for standardized testing did a lot to level the playing field for talented, but economically or socially disadvantaged people. The Democrats are playing with fire here: you do not want to wake up a Korean “tiger mom” and have her direct her ire in your direction.