The SAT isn’t racist — but woke activists sure are
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores, went the claim. And even if the test isn’t racist today, woke activists said, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT tutoring.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores, went the claim. And even if the test isn’t racist today, woke activists said, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT tutoring. As anti-SAT ads from activist groups like FairTest put it: “Real learning is not standardized, so why judge children just by test scores?” Most colleges stopped requiring the test for admissions. That was ironic, given that standardized tests once brought students from underrepresented groups into colleges.
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- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores, went the claim. And even if the test isn’t racist today, woke activists said, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT tutoring.
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