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Mamdani wants to rethink gifted and talented in NYC. The program has already seen big shifts.
But the test helped drive sharp racial and economic segregation: In 2020, the last year it was administered, just 12% of kindergartners in gifted programs were Black or Latino. After the city nixed the test, the demographics began to change. In the 2023-24 school year, 30% of kindergartners in gifted programs were Black or Latino,…
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Should NYC’s specialized high school test come in other languages? Manhattan parent council says no.
· newsLast school year, just four of the nearly 16,000 students enrolled in the eight specialized high schools, or 0.03%, were classified as English learners, according to city data. That’s in a school system where roughly 148,000 students, or 16.3% of the population, are learning English — a share that’s been growing as the city absorbs…
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New York City Approves New Contract for Specialized High School Test
· newsAccording to the D.O.E., approximately 30,000 eighth graders and 5,000 ninth graders take the test each year. Major racial gaps have persisted in the admissions process, with 12 percent of spots last year offered to Black and Latino students — the highest number since 2013 and up from 10 percent the year before. The meeting agenda for…
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Push to digitize NYC entrance exam for specialized high schools reignites equity debate
· newshttps://www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/23/push-to-digitize-nyc-entrance-exam-for-specialized-high-schools-reignites-equity-debate/
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NYC eyes $17 million contract to create computer-based Specialized High School Admissions Test
· newsThis year’s eighth graders could be the last class that takes the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test with paper and pencil. A New York City education panel is slated to vote on a roughly $17 million contract later this month that would transition the test to a computer-based model. https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/10/17/nyc-specialized-high-school-admissions-test-shsat-could-go-digital/
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More Black and Latino Students Admitted to New York’s Elite High Schools
· newsAcross the public school system, 24 percent of students are Black and 41 percent are Hispanic. But at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, often viewed as the city’s most competitive high school, 10 of the 744 offers made this spring went to Black students while 16 went to Hispanic students. Asian students were offered 496…
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Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.
Gaps at many of the other schools were also stark: Out of 287 offers made at Staten Island Technical High School, for example, two Black students were accepted — up from zero last year — along with seven Latino students. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/nyregion/stuyvesant-high-school-black-students.html
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NYC’s specialized high schools continue to admit few Black, Latino students, 2022 data shows
· newsWhile the share of Black and Latino students taking the test increased this year by more than five percentage points, to almost 47% of test-takers, that did not translate into more students earning a score high enough to qualify for admission. (There is no cut-off score for admission. Rather, offers are based on ranked scores,…
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Teachers union chief cites Stuyvesant HS in ripping standardized testing
· newsAmerican Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten critiqued standardized testing Thursday — and specifically cited the racial makeup of heavily Asian Stuyvesant High School as an example of what’s wrong with the system. “If you need proof of the limitations of standardized tests, consider that of the 750 students admitted to New York Citys acclaimed…
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Stuyvesant students say the crushing workload is hurting their mental health. Here’s what they’re doing about it.
· newsHomework for regular classes is supposed to be capped at an hour over two days, or two hours for Advanced Placement classes, Giordano explained. Much of the discussion about the path forward has often been mired in the debate over academic standards. “It often comes down to this zero sum game, that in order to…