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City mulls changes to exam school admission rules
By James Vaznis GLOBE STAFF JULY 02, 2016
Boston school officials are exploring the potentially dicey question of
whether to change the admission requirements for the city’s three exam
schools in an effort to boost enrollment of black and Latino students.
An advisory committee formed to look at the admissions could usher in the
biggest changes to the entry requirements since a federal court ruling
prompted the school system to stop using race as an admissions factor more
than 15 years ago.
The exploration is a direct result of several allegations of racial
discrimination at the city’s top exam school, Boston Latin School, where
some students said administrators responded inadequately to complaints about
racially charged behavior at the school.
Superintendent Tommy Chang said the goal of the advisory panel is to ensure
that all students have a fair shot at attending Boston Latin, Boston Latin
Academy, and O’Bryant School of Math and Science.
“The current admissions policy focuses on GPAs and test results, and the
group is looking at that,” Chang said in an interview Thursday.
One idea being urged by civil rights leaders is to guarantee admission from
top performers from each school in the city. Currently, along with having
stellar grades, students must a pass rigorous entrance exam to gain
admittance to the competitive public schools, as early as seventh grade.
Schools across the United States are barred from overtly using race as a
determining factor in admission decisions.
But a series of Supreme Court rulings and guidance documents from the
federal government in recent years have provided a roadmap for school
systems on how to use proxies for race, such as guaranteeing admission to
top-performing students from all ZIP codes, according to civil rights
activists.
In some instances, the Supreme Court says that race can still be used as a
factor so long at it is not a determining one.
Boston Latin and Latin Academy have been enrolling disproportionately high
percentages of white and Asian students when compared to school system
averages, while admitting smaller shares of black and Latino students. O’
Bryant has disproportionately high rates of Asian students.
At Boston Latin School, for instance, 8.5 percent of students are black, and
11.6 percent are Latino. By contrast, 32.4 percent of students districtwide
are black, and 41.5 percent are Latino.
Beyond potential changes to admissions requirements, Chang said the group is
looking at ways to boost academic opportunities for students in elementary
schools — such as expanding rigorous courses during the school year and
summer — so they can compete more aggressively for exam school admissions.
The group will also suggest strategies to publicize the process of applying
to exam schools to families who might be unfamiliar with them.
The group has been quietly meeting since at least May, poring over reams of
data. The group consists largely of civil rights attorneys, civil rights
activists, and high-ranking school officials. The committee includes one
grammar school teacher, but no designee from any of the exam schools,
according to information provided by the School Department.
The members are racing to prepare recommendations by the beginning of the
upcoming school year, according to a timeline established in a report by the
Equity Office that urged Chang to create the group.
Several civil rights organizations — including the Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights and Economic Justice, which has a seat on the committee —
wrote Chang a letter in May highlighting various ways the city could change
admissions policies to increase student diversity.
The potential options include guaranteeing admission to students from every
school in the system who perform in the highest quartile at their schools.
The organizations also said the courts allow school systems to craft
admissions policies that give greater weight to students based on their
parents’ level of education, the income level in their neighborhoods, or
enrollment at an underperforming school.
“All those options promote racial diversity without looking at whether
candidate A is white, candidate B is black, or candidate C is Asian,” said
Matthew Cregor, who sits on the advisory committee, but was speaking in his
capacity as the education project director at the lawyers’ committee.
“A lot of what we are going to need to do as a city is make sense of the
data and see how the current [admission requirements] succeed or fail,”
Cregor added. “Our hope as a city is that we can figure out the factors to
make sure children from all neighborhoods benefit and learn from each other.”
Civil rights leaders, since writing their letter, say they have felt even
more emboldened by a US Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld a
University of Texas policy that uses race as one of many factors in
admissions decisions to ensure a diverse student body. Cregor said that
ruling can have ripple effect into K-12 school admissions policies.
Boston is considered to have the nation’s second-strictest admissions
policies for exam schools after some New York schools, where decisions are
based exclusively on test scores.
Boston used to set aside a portion of exam-school seats for minority
students. But a US Appeals Court in 1998 found the practice to be
unconstitutional after a white student was denied admission and her family
sued, prompting the school system to subsequently stop using race as a
factor in admissions decisions.
Chester E. Finn Jr., a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at
the Fordham Institute, an education policy center, said that in an ideal
world, exam schools should consider a more holistic range of factors, such
as essays, recommendations, and interviews, like private colleges do.
“I think that certainly can produce a much more diverse and more
interesting student body that is filled with eager motivated kids,” said
Finn, who wrote the 2012 book “Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most
Selective Public High Schools.”
He says he is no fan of basing admission to exam schools on test scores. His
research has identified 165 of the schools across the country, mostly in
the Northeast.
But he added, “A holistic admission approach is also subjective and will be
litigated by people who feel like their kid was better qualified and was
not taken because of favoritism or race. It’s the problem of basing
anything in the public sector on human judgment.”
Few Boston parents reached for comment Thursday were aware the advisory
committee had been created or had heard only scant details of it. At least
one Latin School parent welcomed a change to the admissions policy, noting
that research has indicated a correlation between economic status and
performance on standardized tests.
“I don’t know why the current method is the be all and end all of fairness
,” said Megan Wolf, a member of QUEST, a grass-roots parents organization
pushing for educational equity across the city.
James Vaznis can be reached at [email protected]/* */ Follow him on Twitter @
globevaznis.
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大家还是找好学区吧
t*******m
发帖数: 1893
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Boston globe主页撤了这文章,看来是有争议。这是直接的链接,还可以看。
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/07/01/boston-explores-changes-exam-
school-admissions-foster-greater-diversity/bFOSHWh3kjNcbmvPcCnyhO/story.html
comments section几乎是一边倒的反对改。
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 11
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Boston Latin and Latin Academy have been enrolling disproportionately high
percentages of white and Asian students when compared to school system
averages, while admitting smaller shares of black and Latino students. O’
Bryant has disproportionately high rates of Asian students.
看来AA都要到中小学了
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