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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lack of foundational skills does not equal inability to learn. Over half of American kids go to public schools with varying degrees of competence in teaching.

Kids who have a great capacity to learn are sometimes limited in who teaches them leading to graduation in high school without the necessary foundational skills.

Harvard-type students will learn quickly regardless of foundational skills and good on Harvard for recognizing that students with high potential may not all come out equal after high school.[/quote]

Nice theory. How do you discern who is a “Harvard-type student” if they have no foundational skills? Even if I agree those “uneducated kids with great capacity to learn” are out there, absent standardized testing, they are surrounded by regular uneducated kids who (especially thanks to grade inflation) look exactly the same.  Harvard is seeing the results of more or less randomly picking these kids and hoping they found the diamond in the rough. It’s why all evidence shows that testing actually helps the “Harvard type” kids that attend crappy schools because it allows them to show they are capable of doing the work. [/quote]

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