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The most selective academic high school in DC has kids who aren't at grade level. Do you think that's true at Harvard and MIT?  [/quote]

Harvard now has remedial math.

[quote]Harvard is quick to blame these math gaps on pandemic learning losses — but, in truth, administrators brought this mess on themselves by scrapping standardized testing requirements during the pandemic, all in the name of equity.
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https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/harvard-univ-the-ivy-league-teaching-remedial-math/[/quote]

Many top schools are bringing back standardized testing because of issues above and that these students tend to fail out and not graduate at all.[/quote]

Walls has been test-free for 5 years now, and there has been no issue with kids failing out or not graduating. [/quote]

Well that's a low bar.[/quote]

It is good enough compared to the systemic issues that DC public schools face. The solution is not to add a standardized test to selective schools admission process.
The problem is systemic and requires solutions that are systemic, starting from K and elementary levels with tracking kids, testing, and getting rid of social promotion. In addition to addressing the huge socioeconomic gaps in the city and the disparities from one ward to another.  Again, as mentioned in other posts, kids performance in standardized tests tends to be connected to the parent’s educational and socioeconomic levels. If we care for our city, then we have to care about closing those inequities and uplift the city as a whole.[/quote]

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