The nonprofit group that administers the SAT said Thursday it will assign a score to students who take the test to reflect their social and economic backgrounds.Potential newborns to these challenging, more harship neighborhoods will have to wait for their "Environmental Context Dashboard". See new Alabama abortion law backlash.
The new score -- first reported by the Wall Street Journal -- comes amid heightened scrutiny that colleges are facing over the admissions process and the diversity of their student bodies.
The College Board said it would implement what it calls the "Environmental Context Dashboard," which would measure factors like the crime rate and poverty levels of a student's neighborhood, to better capture their "resourcefulness to overcome challenges and achieve more with less."
"There is talent and potential waiting to be discovered in every community -- the children of poor rural families, kids navigating the challenges of life in the inner city, and military dependents who face the daily difficulties of low income and frequent deployments as part of their family's service to our country," David Coleman, chief executive officer of the College Board said in a statement sent to CNN.
"No single test score should ever be examined without paying attention to this critical context," he added.
The Environmental Context Dashboard has been piloted at 50 colleges and universities, according to a spokesman for the College Board, and the organization hopes to make it more widely available to other schools next year.
Students are scored on a scale of 1 to 100 based on data from records like the US census and the National Center for Education Statistics. According to the College Board, a score of 50 would be considered average, while a number above 50 indicates more hardship.
Friday, May 17, 2019
"The SAT will assign a new score that factors in where you live and the crime level in your neighborhood"
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Will you get points for tax evasion or embezzlement.
Illegal alien privilege.
Yeah, whatever. School shit. Let's talk about more important matters. Matters of life and death and a man's response to challenge.
THERE'S A ROACH IN MY BEDROOM. I heard him before I saw him. He's a big boy. On the prowl. Looking for trouble. By the time I had armed up he had taken partial cover. I took a swing at him anyway, missed, and now he's gone to ground.
But he's still there. Waiting for the lights to go out. Waiting for me to sleep. Waiting to pounce.
Where he came from, I don't know. Maybe the cable outlet. Maybe the toilet. Maybe he's always been there. Growing, watching, waiting for signs of weakness.
In normal times I would feel confident in the final outcome. But in my current, debilitated state - we'll just have to see. I may go down, but if I do, I'm going down fighting.
Lights out. Let's rock and roll, motherfucker.
The Chicago mafia finds another way to put their thumb on a scale. Harvard admissions might as well set up shop in southside.
Trapper Max Free Mouse Glue Boards (12 for $10) ought to deal with cockroaches. Just lay them flat rather than folding them, somewhere pets can't get at them.
They get rid of occasional infestations by bug species that happen in my kitchen a few years apart.
The guy who came up with Common Core did this one.
So much for the SATs.
Rabel, I hope you get better and that the roach expires. Good thing about being deaf is that one never hears roaches.
The giant ones that show up in my house walk in through the back door. I find Raid kills them dead.
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