Source: NY Times
New York City’s eight “specialized” city high schools offer elite educational opportunities for a select group of students every year, who are admitted based on a multiple choice test.
This year, approximately 28,000 students took the test and about 5,000 were admitted. Of those 5,000 only about 500 were black or Latino students.
For the most competitive of the specialized high schools, only 13 black students were offered admission for an entering freshman class of 1,000 students.
The admission tests have been heavily criticized by leaders in the education sector, who claim that the tests cannot – and should not – be the sole determinant of who gets to attend the city’s best high schools.
The tests are not based on material taught in middle schools, but rather on material taught in test prep programs.
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