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The SAT isn’t racist — but woke activists sure are
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Did you know that the SAT is racist?
During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.”
No wonder black people get lower scores, went the claim.
And even if the test isn’t racist today, woke activists said, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT tutoring.
As anti-SAT ads from activist groups like FairTest put it: “Real learning is not standardized, so why judge children just by test scores?”
During Woke I, FairTest won.
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Most colleges stopped requiring the test for admissions.
That was ironic, given that standardized tests once brought students from underrepresented groups into colleges.
After tests helped Jews get into college in the 1920s, Harvard even reduced focus on tests — to “prevent a dangerous increase in the proportion of........