Three charter-school leaders for ending single-test high school admissions: Black and Latino kids can perform at the highest levels

Using a single test to determine admission to the most elite schools is not a sound way to select students. It’s an outdated process that leads schools to miss too many talented students, a single-measure notion that the best colleges don’t even use. The Specialized High School Admissions Test isn’t based on the middle-school curriculum and has never been statistically shown to be a predictor of performance. Many miss the admissions cutoff by tenths of a point.

Any statistician will tell you these test results are unreliable. Any one of our educators, students or families will tell you the test is not representative of the capabilities of black and Latino students.

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