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#STOPASIANHATE: An Elite Public High School Changed Its Admissions Standards To Reduce the Asian-American Student Population: In the name of helping racial minorities, officials are adopting a plan that would boost whites at the expense of Asian Americans. – Investment Watch


U.S. News and World Report ranked it as America’s best overall high school.
It also educates a substantial racial minority population: 70 percent of TJ’s students are Asian-Americans many of them children of immigrants.
You might think progressive education officials would celebrate this. Instead, they have decided to jettison the school’s famously tough admissions test in favor of a “holistic” (i.e., subjective and arbitrary) system that will permit officials to reject Asian-American students in favor of less-deserving students who belong to other racial categories.
The Washington Post reports:
Under the new rules, Fairfax will first identify all eighth-graders who meet certain academic criteria: those who achieve an unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 while taking Algebra I or a higher-level math class, in addition to math and science honors courses and either an English or social studies honors course. ....

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Schools, caught by pandemic and confronting systemic racism, jettison testing for admissions


Schools, caught by pandemic and confronting systemic racism, jettison testing for admissions
Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson
New York City on Friday announced major changes to how thousands of students are assigned to middle schools, replacing a merit-based system that critics say exacerbated segregation with a lottery that is expected to create more diversity at the most sought-after schools.
The move was driven by the coronavirus pandemic, because tests typically used for admissions were not administered last spring. Selective high schools in D.C., Boston and San Francisco have also jettisoned admissions tests for the coming academic year, citing the crisis. Although these districts could reinstitute old systems after the pandemic abates, advocates have been pressing for these changes for years, and many expect them to outlive the pandemic. ....

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