“It’s terrible,” says Michael Oshinaya, a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in New York City who was among a group of Black students whose scores weren’t broken out as a racial category. “We’re part of America. We make up America, too. We should be counted as part of America.”
The solution may be to set a single federal standard for when minority students’ scores don’t have to be counted separately, says Ross Wiener, policy director for the Washington-based Education Trust.
While the exemptions were created for good reasons, there’s little doubt now that group sizes have become political, said Wiener, whose group supports the law.
“They’re asking the question, not how do we generate statistically reliable results, but how do we generate politically palatable results,” he says.
— Associated Press
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