The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won 54 percent of this year’s freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent; Hispanics, 5 percent and African-Americans, 4 percent.
Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-based admissions — because “It’s far past time for our students to be fairly represented.”
It is also a way of covering up serious defects in the whole pedagogical model. It’s bureaucracy’s way of cheating on a performance test they’ve flunked.
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