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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all remind me of the anonymous responses that you see at the bottom of a Fox News article, where people show their true colors.  Shameful.  [/quote]

Personally, I like the idea of schools taking adversity into account and assume most already try to do
so.

People are saying this comes from supporters of the Common Core approach to standardized testing. I love the idea of Common Core but hate the implementation. I think I’m going to feel the same way about the adversity scores. The colleges need to do something like this, but maybe they need to think harder about how to come up with a good adversity score. Or somehow distinguish very clearly between environmental and personal adversity, and make sure personal adversity gets at least equal billing.

If the score somehow hurts a low-income African American kid who goes to a fancy private school on a scholarship, that would be bad. If the score helps a wealthy child who goes to a fancy school in a poor neighborhood, that’s also wrong. [/quote]

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