Tag: bronx science

Stokely Carmichael interviewed by Mike Wallace discusses the SHSAT Exam

Jul 26, 2021

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Almost 60 years ago, civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael calls out the inequitable SHSAT admissions process
Social Justice Was Always Essential to NYC’s Public High Schools

Oct 12, 2018

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But here’s where Blumenstein and other critics get it wrong because, although Bronx Science founder Morris Meister was a firm believer in merit-based admissions, it was in the context of seeing science education as integral to a democratic social and political vision. Criticizing reforms intended to make the city more democratic by fossilizing Meister’s original…