Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:58 am
Just let it wash over you, in a cool wave.
Speaking of black and white (kinda)...
A new plan to change the way students are admitted to New York’s elite public high schools is infuriating members of some Asian communities who feel they will be pushed aside in the drive to admit more than a handful of black and Latino students.
But in a series of forceful statements on Tuesday, Richard A. Carranza, the schools chancellor, offered a blunt rebuttal to their claims. “I just don’t buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admission to these schools,” he said on Fox 5 New York.
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“The test is the most unbiased way to get into a school,” said Peter Koo, a city councilman whose district includes Flushing, Queens, on Tuesday. “It doesn’t require an interview. It doesn’t require a résumé. It doesn’t even require connections. The mayor’s son just graduated from Brooklyn Tech and got into Yale. Now he wants to stop this and build a barrier to Asian-Americans — especially our children.”
The schools, which admit students based on a single test, look starkly different from the school system overall. While black and Hispanic students represent nearly 70 percent of public school students, they make up just 10 percent of students at the specialized high schools, a vast underrepresentation that has long been considered an injustice and a symbol of the city’s extreme school segregation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/nyre ... v=top-news
We probably disagree a little bit here. In one case, the women have already made it into college, I am assuming, and are taking the same tests and coursework as the males. In this single test to get into high schools situation, there are many other factors at play, home life, quality of elementary schools, etc, that a 14 year old has little control of.
I happen to be privileged to live in a great (and expensive) school district, so the quality of education is not a concern. If I lived somewhere where it was a problem and I saw no clear way out, well, that would suck.
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I re-read the STEM article, and didn't like what I read! Things like:
“Does a course grade primarily reward conceptual understanding and problem-solving ability, or does it primarily reward hard work, reflected in course attendance, submission of assignments on time, etc., or some mixture of the two?”
and
“I think there are different ways to work on that issue, such as keeping feedback on student work but reducing the frequency that work is given an official grade,” Young said.
Ok, yeah, sure. Just like in 1st grade where 1/3 of your points on homework was putting your name in the right spot on the page...Once you've gotten to college you're an adult and if you can't keep up, for whatever reason, might be time to explore a different major.