Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score
by beering on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:32PM
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It's not a single axis of (dis-)advantage. A wealthy black person in America has economic advantages over a poor white student, yes. But the black student will have disadvantages based on their skin color that a white student wouldn't have. There are a lot of people advocating for entirely replacing race-based affirmative action with economic/wealth-based weighting but they're not mutually exclusive.
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Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score
by flippinburgers on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:57PM
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I would argue that wealth is significantly more important than color of skin.
Re:College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score
by skinnymuch on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:46AM
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Yes race matters. But your social class and financial means matter far more in most casss.