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Akil Bello: Standardized Testing and its Discontents

Don't Force It: How to Get into College without Losing Yourself in the Process

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The Systemic Impacts of Testing

Test prep is a $2 billion industry preparing those who can pay for it to excel on these tests and those who can't pay for it are therefore left behind. To me testing is using a free throw contest to find basketball players. It's not a measure of intellect, like any of those sort of things. At best you can say it's a measure of preparedness A for that test and B for some underlying skills that are also on the test but maybe subsumed by the test construction itself.

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