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College Board Drops Its 'Adversity Score' For Each Student After Backlash
2019-08-27
[NPR] The College Board is dropping its plan to give SAT-takers a single score that captured a student's economic hardship. The change comes after blowback from university officials and parents of those taking the college admissions exam.

Announced in May, the "adversity score" was intended to assess the kind of neighborhood the applicant comes from, including factors such as the rate of teens who receive free or reduced lunch, the level of crime and the average educational attainment.

In an interview with NPR, College Board CEO David Coleman said boiling all of that complex information down to one number was problematic, and the company is now reversing that decision.

Some people worried that the adversity score would affect SAT scores, when that was never the case, Coleman said.

"The idea of a single score was confusing because it seemed that all of a sudden the College Board was trying to score adversity. That's not the College Board's mission," Coleman said. "The College Board scores achievement, not adversity."

And so, the College Board is launching a tool called Landscape, which will provide admissions counselors with information about a student's background, like average neighborhood income and crime rates, but Coleman said the data points will not be given a score.
One more win for the day ?
Posted by:Dron66046

#3  Dare we hope for a ruling against Harvard in the anti-aff action / Asian discrimination case?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-27 22:04  

#2  One more win for the day ?

Definitely. That was a sure way to guarantee that kids from poorer backgrounds would be sent to schools more challenging than they were prepared for.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-08-27 21:59  

#1  Wow. We're on a roll today.
Think I need to buy a lottery ticket.

Bluebirdssmiling at me
nothing but blue skies do I see
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-27 21:41  

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