Emma Green on a long-standing controversy in education about whether some teacher-qualification exams discriminate against Black and Latino test-takers.
That changed when a cousin encouraged him to get a job as a teacher so that he could travel and have time off in the summer. By then, Wilds-Bethea had moved to New York City and had got a master’s degree in counselling. He inquired with the city’s Board of Examiners—which, at the time, was the body that certified New York City teachers—about a position working in guidance.
” And yet there’s a lot of disagreement among experts about this question—whether the tests are inherently flawed, or whether they just reflect society’s deeper problems with race. “I don’t think it’s surprising that we see a disparate impact on test performance,” said Dan Goldhaber, a professor at the University of Washington whom another scholar described as “the doyen” of researchers in this area. “There is inequality in society.
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