How about that, how smart you are may again become the paramount criterion for whether you’re admitted to a university, and not your gender, race, or ethnicity. From Wenyuan Wu at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing the “holistic admissions” model (originally used in the early 20th century to keep Jews out) and dissing meritocracy, is perhaps taking a long and hard look at the ideological mess the education establishment itself helped create.
Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the war on tests has perpetuated the soft bigotry of low expectations and racialized education at the expense of our global competitiveness. And it filters down to younger kids. Based on ratings by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the U.S. ranked No. 25 on 15-year-old students’ academic performance in math, science, and reading among nearly 80 countries and No. 37 on its average math score in 2018.
The march back through the institutions has begun, with torchbearers of “progressive” education like Harvard retracting from the equity-obsessed assault on standards. But the overdue redress is not happening quickly enough. As of April 18, 2024, more than 1,900 accredited institutions of higher education in the U.S. are test-optional, while over 80 campuses are test-free.
The current color revolution on commie campuses may crush their dreams of meritocracy?
Plenty of burning it all down for the Summer of Sorrows.
I hate America and everyone in it, it is my life’s mission to destroy it.
G Sorrows, Newsweek, 1979 [paraphrased]