Education
EP 24 : The US College Admissions Fraud Case - Traditional, Mainstream & Progressive Perspectives
How should colleges go about filtering who gets in and who doesn’t?
At what point does a competitive advantage for an applicant become cheating?
We discuss the current college admissions scandal in the US through the 4 values that inform what education looks like.
Standardized tests which have been of great value seem to be losing favour due to the numerous ways students and parents can gamify or cheat the system. In this case, parents were paying for students scores to be enhanced and even paying for other people to go write the tests for their kids.
Will a scandal like this or others in the future lead to us abandoning standardized test scores as entrance criteria or will they simply compliment other criteria deemed worthy?
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/13/us/what-we-know-college-admissions-cheating-scandal/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/sat-act-cheating-college-admissions.html?fbclid=IwAR1eOMmp_ZZ6hjiiS_NrJfupriPPL5GolQ50JseUQqImrGpfoZmzfYn6Htc
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