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Reply to "New York Top Schools - Top marks largely go to Asians. Bill de Blasio wants to change the exams"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think by lowering standards of an academic test to gain entrance into an academic institution for academic purposes is implying that some races are not academically smart. Yes, there are all kinds of smart kids - some are good in music, dance, sports, spatial reasoning...and so there are competitions that measure these specific kind of intelligence too. Since exams are such an imperfect way - we should eliminate all exams. Harvard can institute some kind of "Hunger Games" kind of scenario and the survivor gets admitted to it. [/quote] No, it's admitting that an academic test alone is not necessarily a good measure of ability (except ability to do well on an academic test). Also, nobody is advocating getting rid of all exams, except maybe Alfie Kohn. What's more, the Harvard admissions office actually takes a whole lot more into account than just test scores. [/quote]
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