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  • FAIRNESS TO GIFTED GIRLS: ADMISSIONS TO NEW YORK CITY’S ELITE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS

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    A SHSAT research paper published in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Jonathan TaylorHunter College Gender Equity Project ABSTRACT The use of test scores in school admissions has been a contentious issue for decades. In New York City’s elite public high schools, it has been particularly controversial because of disproportionate representation…

  • An Improvement to the Mayor’s Current Proposal

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    The mayor recently recommended a new specialized high school admissions procedure. Instead of a single exam, he’d like to identify the top 25% of NYC 8th grade students based on state score. Then from that group, make specialized high school offers to the top 7% of students from every school. A critic of the mayor’s…

  • Dr. Jon Taylor Testifies at NYS Assembly Hearing on the SHSAT

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    Dr. Jonathan Taylor’s testimony, without the following question and answer with elected officials. The entire seven hour hearing can be found here…

  • How New York’s Elite Public Schools Lost Their Black and Hispanic Students

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    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/nyregion/nyc-public-schools-black-hispanic-students.html

  • Chancellor Carranza Testifies at NYS Assembly Hearing on the SHSAT

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    Here’s the Chancellor’s initial testimony, without the following question and answer with elected officials. The entire seven hour hearing can be found here…

  • Video: NYC School Segregation: Rethinking the SHSAT

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    65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation in public schools remains a major issue in cities across the country. New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country, and some see the controversial Specialized High Schools Admissions Test as part of the problem. At a City Council Oversight…

  • SHSAT Assembly Testimony: Race, Gifted & Talented, and Tracking in NYC: Dr. Roda, et. al

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    Below are some excerpts from Dr. Roda’s paper on SHSAT, gifted and talented, and tracking in NYC. In particular, our research-based recommendations, described below, call on the Chancellor and Mayor to phase out G&T programs and replace them with equitable and integrated desegregated schools and classroom settings with culturally responsive and sustaining curriculum. We also…

  • Video: New York City Students and Alumni on the Specialized High School Test

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    Powerful testimony on the effect’s of a NYC’s single-measure, high-stakes admissions system. And how the pressure affected the mental health of a group of 12 year-old students.

  • IBO: Do a Larger Share of Students Attending the City’s Specialized High Schools Live in Neighborhoods With Higher Median Incomes than Those Attending the City’s Other High Schools?

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    Students in the specialized high schools came from census tracts where the median household income averaged $62,457 compared with $46,392 for students in other high schools. (All dollar amounts are reported in 2012 dollars). If we rank the census tracts by their median income and then divide the tracts into equal fifths (quintiles), we observe…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Latrice Walker

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    Name: Latrice Walker Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Latrice_Walker Assembly: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Latrice-Walker Phone: 718-342-1256 Assemblymember Latrice Walker advocates for keeping the SHSAT exam as the sole admission’s criteria in New York City specialized high schools. Even as Assemblymember Walker’s district compromises many students who have shown their academic merit but will never have a chance to attend a public specialized…