WBUR reports BPS Superintendent Brenda Cassellius is proposing a one-year change for Boston's three exam schools: 20% of next year's seats would go to students with the city's top grades, while the rest would be awarded based on students' ranks in each city Zip code - with students in lower-income Zip codes getting first crack.
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You're making a leap from
By CH
Fri, 10/09/2020 - 6:00pm
You're making a leap from doing away with exams to lowering the bar for admissions. They are not automatically the same thing, and the data I've seen suggests the connection is much more tenuous than most would assume. Entrance exams are not controversial just because they're unfair (even though they are); there are also serious doubts about whether or not they effectively measure what they claim to measure.
It seems like people claim to be upset about "any change which lowers the bar", but since it has not been established that the proposed changes would lower the bar, the opposition seems to be to merely "any change." Sometimes change is good. If the point of the schools is to educate our best and brightest, and the current system keeps many of those students out for reasons unrelated to their individual ability, a change could be completely in keeping with their mission.
Best and brightest?
By Sock_Puppet
Sat, 10/10/2020 - 10:22am
No need to exaggerate. If you want to find the actual best and brightest, they have better options than BLS.
If anyone for a second
By anon
Fri, 10/09/2020 - 1:13pm
Thinks this is a one year plan, you're just kidding yourself. Once this is implemented, they never revert back to testing. NEVER!
Once the exam is gone, it’ll
By anon
Fri, 10/09/2020 - 8:26pm
Once the exam is gone, it’ll never come back.
I would think that if people
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2020 - 12:35pm
are worried about grade inflation in certain schools, they would want a standardized test to show whether those "inflated" grades are accurate.
If they want more black and Hispanic students in the exam schools, then start working with them starting in kindergarten. By the time they are in fifth grade, if they are not at grade level or advanced level, it would be very hard to get any student up to speed where they can compete with students who have had educational advantages throughout their earlier elementary years.
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