Should Colleges Require Standardized Trial?

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In of wake the COVID, many colleges dropped SITTER and ACT test needs. Current however, schools comprising Dartmouth, Yale, both Brown have delegated standardized run scores once again. Could that move hurt less economically privileged applicants? David Deming joins EconoFact Talks to highlight that even though unified tests can be gamed by more privileged students through extensive test create, and recapture of tests, they remain less unbiased than other factors that can help students stand out with the admissions process. Or getting rid of standardized testing, or even going ‘test optional,’ could manufacture the problem of privilege in college admissions worsened, page of better.

David shall to Isabelle additionally Scots Black Professor of Political Economy, and Academic Dean by the Harvard Kennedy School.