SHSAT Sunset

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Eric Adams

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    Name: Eric AdamsBallotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Eric_Adams_(New_York) Phone: 718-802-3700 Brooklyn President Eric Adams now advocates for keeping the SHSAT exam as the sole admission’s criteria in New York City specialized high schools. Mr. Eric Adams is running for mayor in 2021 and is currently funding raising for this purpose. At first, Mr. Adams was AGAINST the SHSAT high-stakes…

  • Seven NYC Students Didn’t Get Seats in Elite Schools, So They Asked State for Help

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    Another attack on NYC’s specialized high school diversity efforts. This is representing attorney Claude M. Millman’s ( Bronx Science ’81 Alumni ) second legal action against the SHSAT reform that I know of. Previously he represented a coalition of anti-reform protesters in another SHSAT related matter in 2014. I believe but haven’t confirmed that this…

  • Toward a Black education agenda

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    “We have 5,000 applicants every year for these schools and NYC is the only school system that uses a single test as the only criteria for admission. All other schools in the nation have multiple measures for admission into specialized schools. They look at what the student has done all year, their GPA, their development.…

  • Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years

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    It’s important to understand the political climate before the NY State legislature decided to pass Hecht-Calandra in 1971. The New York Times does a great job filing in that context. In 2016, a proposal to send some Upper West Side children — who were zoned for a high-performing, mostly white, wealthy elementary school near their…

  • Important Technical Features of the SHSAT Exam

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    Recently @akilbello went over some very important open questions regarding the SHSAT. These remind us of how important it is for the NYC Department of Education to immediately release the SHSAT manual. Read the lengthy twitter thread here.

  • First Senate Forum on NYC Specialized High Schools

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  • AERA Position Statement on High-Stakes Testing

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    The American Educational Research Association is the foremost and most respected national educational research society. Below is their opinions on using high-stakes testing in admissions. This position statement on high-stakes testing is based on the 1999 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. The Standards represent a professional consensus concerning sound and appropriate test use in education and psychology.…

  • New numbers show just how few minority students get into NYC’s top, specialized high schools

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    Students from families living in neighborhoods within the South Bronx and central Brooklyn were least likely to attend the famed schools, in a similar pattern to last year, the data show. An analysis of city Education Department data revealed just seven of roughly 19,875 students from Bronx District 7 landed seats in the elite public…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: William Colton

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    Name: William ColtonAssembly Link: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/William-Colton/ Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/William_Colton Phone: 718-236-1598 Assembly-member William Colton is a proponent of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Media: Assembly-member Colton conveniently leaves out the fact that NYC’s gifted & talented programs actually increase segregation. Parents from across the city opportunity…

  • Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Scrap Elite School Test

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    Great news for SHSAT reform advocates: With support from white, black and Hispanic voters, 57 percent of all New York City voters say other factors should be considered in deciding admission to elite public high schools, while 36 percent say keep the present system which relies on a single test to decide admission.  Support for…