Destroying education-----College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Scores - WSJ

College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Scores - WSJ:

• Facing criticism, nonprofit that oversees test backs off proposal to capture students’ socioeconomic backgrounds in single metric

The College Board is abandoning its plan to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT college admissions test, after facing criticism from educators and parents.

Instead, it will try to capture a student’s social and economic background in a broad array of data points.
The new tactic is called Landscape and, while it includes much of the same information, it doesn’t combine the metrics into a single score..."
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