Friday, March 07, 2008
Just say it, if you have the conviction
We've all seen BAMN screeds before. Here's the latest. Sadly, Ronald Cruz (or the editor) sort of dances around an interesting issue:
The SAT and other standardized tests do not measure intellectual ability or potential. They do, however, stigmatize minority and poor students while giving an unfair advantage to white students and those from privileged backgrounds. Eliminating the SAT is necessary to protect meaningful gains in underrepresented student enrollment from the threat of right-wing lawsuits and demagoguery. What is being said in that last line? Right-wing lawsuits? What lawsuit is avoided if the SAT is eliminated?
I guess what Cruz is saying is that any evidence that UC engages in illegal racial preferences must be destroyed, and the SAT might provide that evidence. I can't see any other coherent explanation for that line. Implicit, then, is that he doesn't believe that the bias of the SAT can be proven.
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