Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
by haihaibye on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:09PM
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They claim that minority students increased representation in gifted programs after increased testing and linked to a paper.
They forgot to mention that the paper says IQ cutoffs were 130 for non-disadvantaged students vs 115 for poor/minority.
The paper then goes on to say, with lower ovjective standards, the groups pass the subjective bar at equal rates.
The subjective bar being applied by a system so motivated to achieve proportional representation they altered cutoffs.
It's a shame that you work for an education startup and you don't even bother reading the articles you are posting.
The article clearly states, that the standardized tests made things more egalitarian.
If you truly are interested in the truth and not merely trying to profit on persecuting people on ideological grounds, perhaps you might want to point to where the flaws in the tests lie, something the article fails to mention.