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Brooklyn: Action Filed Over School Admissions
The first legal challenge against Hecht-Calandra was launched in 1974. Only 3 years after the law was passed. Since then there’s been a number of legal actions. Here’s one from 2007. A public-interest law firm in Washington filed a class-action lawsuit against the New York City Education Department yesterday, charging that a program created to…
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Admission Test’s Scoring Quirk Throws Balance Into Question
Mr. Feinman had stumbled on a little-known facet of the test: because of the complex way it is graded, a student scoring extremely high on one part of the exam has a sharp advantage over a student with high but more balanced scores in each subject. “As taxpayers and parents, we should know how the…
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3 High Schools For Students Who Excel
The Board of Education will open three selective high schools in September on campuses of the City University of New York, expanding the slots for strong students who do not make it into the Bronx High School of Science or the other two competitive science schools. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/15/nyregion/3-high-schools-for-students-who-excel.html
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PUTTING DREAMS TO THE TEST: A special report; Elite High School Is a Grueling Exam Away
A NYTimes overview of the test and experiences in 1998. The Stuyvesant test is officially called the ”Examination for the Specialized Science High Schools” — Stuyvesant, the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School. The same test is given for admission to all three, and students simply list their first, second and…
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Testing Time, and Anxiety Is High
Since early December the pace has increased, with nearly 18,000 eighth- and ninth-grade students taking the admission test for the city’s three specialized “science” high schools, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Technical; more than 3,300 would-be art, drama, music and dance students auditioning at Fiorello La Guardia, and hundreds of others taking admissions exams for…
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First High School Test: Getting In
If the air was fraught with some apprehension, perhaps some was called for. The one-and-a-half-hour multiple-choice test, which includes vocabulary, reading comprehension, logical reasoning and mathematics, is the sole determining factor for admission to the city’s three specialized science high schools — Stuyvesant, Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School. […] Board…
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Special Classes Help Gifted in Ghettos
OUTSIDE, there is a burned‐out tenement, a symbol of a devastated inner‐city neighborhood. Inside, a teacher is working on algebra problems with a class of gifted children, preparing them for entrance to specialized high schools. Of the 16,800 pupils in District 7, 400 are in special progress classes. The district is about 68 percent Hispanic,…
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Grouping by Ability Of Students Upheld For New York City
The Federal Government said yesterday that New York City public schools could continue grouping Youngsters by ability even if it led to racially imbalanced classes. And in a related action, it withdrew a charge that the city’s three academically elite high schools discriminated against black and female students. The Government actions, contained in an agreement…
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New York City’s Discriminating Schools
n a city where residential patterns have made the student bodies of nearly half the public schools predominantly nonwhite, the effective integration of the special schools, and the maintenance of their high academic standards, should be cause for celebration, not condemnation. The Office of Civil Rights may not realize that, racial issues aside, the special…
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2 Ideals at Issue
Many teachers and principals are convinced that there should be ability grouping for the good of the most able and the least able students. But often these same educators are uneasy over the racial isolation that often results. This has put some programs for bright students on shaky ground. Classes for gifted children are being…