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What is not fine is to use any holistic measurement as a proxy for race. 0.900

👤 Edward Blum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Race

Simplified: Using holistic measurement as proxy for race is not fine according to Edward Blum.

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Edward Blum, the head of Students for Fair Admissions, said that broadly considering talents, interests, characteristics and other experiences could continue. 0.900

👤 Edward Blum 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education

Simplified: Edward Blum said considering talents interests characteristics and experiences could continue.

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Groups like Students for Fair Admissions have said such subjective measures could sometimes result in discrimination against high-performing groups, particularly Asian students, similar to the way uni... 0.800

👤 Students for Fair Admissions 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Discrimination

Simplified: Subjective measures could discriminate against high-performing groups like Asian students according to Students for Fair Admissions.

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These days in the United States, there are few academically elite institutions at any level — high school or college — that admit students based only on test scores, in part because of disparities in... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education

Simplified: Few academically elite institutions in the United States admit students based only on test scores.

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He emphasized that admissions should be about context. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , College Admissions

Simplified: Admissions should be about context.

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By contrast, 7 percent of white test takers and 27 percent of Asian students scored between 1400 and 1600. 0.900

👤 The College Board 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Statistics

Simplified: 7 percent of white test takers and 27 percent of Asian students scored between 1400 and 1600 on the SAT in 2024.

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Among students who graduated from high school in 2024 and took the SAT, 1 percent of Black students scored between 1400 and 1600, the highest possible score, according to the College Board, the privat... 0.900

👤 The College Board 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Statistics

Simplified: 1 percent of Black students scored between 1400 and 1600 on the SAT in 2024.

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Similarly, 2 percent of Hispanic test takers scored in that range. 0.900

👤 The College Board 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Statistics

Simplified: 2 percent of Hispanic test takers scored between 1400 and 1600 on the SAT in 2024.

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By the time students take the SAT, research shows, those from the highest-income households are seven times as likely to score at least 1300, compared with students from the poorest families. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Economics , Science

Simplified: Students from highest-income households are seven times as likely to score at least 1300 on the SAT compared to students from poorest families.

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Decades of research shows a strong link between family income and students’ test scores — a link that makes it difficult to create diverse student bodies using test scores alone. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Economics , Science

Simplified: Research shows a strong link between family income and student test scores making it difficult to create diverse student bodies using test scores alon...

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After World War II, when the United States faced increased military and scientific competition from the Soviet Union, selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors, includi... 0.900

👤 Nicholas Lemann 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors including the SAT after World War II.

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In the early 20th century, colleges considered intangible factors such as character, leadership and athleticism. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Colleges considered intangible factors such as character leadership and athleticism in the early 20th century.

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James Murphy, director of postsecondary policy at Education Reform Now, a left-leaning advocacy group, said the new disclosure requirements would increase incentives to enroll wealthy students, who of... 0.800

👤 James Murphy 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Economics

Simplified: James Murphy said disclosure requirements would increase incentives to enroll wealthy students who score higher on standardized tests.

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The president’s order builds on the court decision, but also goes further, by giving the federal government information that it could use to target colleges it thinks are not complying. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Education

Simplified: President's order builds on court decision giving federal government information to target non-complying colleges.

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Universities have been scrambling to rearrange their admissions processes to comply with the ruling ever since. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Law

Simplified: Universities have been rearranging admissions processes to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.

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Two years ago, conservatives, led by an organization called Students for Fair Admissions, won a victory in the Supreme Court, when a majority of the justices deemed the consideration of race in colleg... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Education

Simplified: Conservatives led by Students for Fair Admissions won Supreme Court victory deeming race consideration in college admissions unconstitutional two year...

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For a century, higher education has been embroiled in a debate over who should be admitted into the country’s most selective colleges. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Higher education has been embroiled in debate over college admissions for a century.

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Colleges will face even more intense scrutiny over their admissions practices as the administration pushes them to rely more heavily on quantitative measures, which experts say could result in wealthi... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education

Simplified: Colleges will face more scrutiny as the administration pushes reliance on quantitative measures which could result in wealthier less diverse student p...

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The Trump administration’s executive order demanding that universities disclose the race, test scores and grade point averages of all applicants raises the stakes in a bitter battle that has already u... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Education

Simplified: Trump administration executive order demanding universities disclose applicant race test scores and GPA raises stakes in college admissions battle.

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President Trump signed an executive order requiring schools to submit information about the academics of applicants, which was designed to prevent universities from using “racial proxies” in admission... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Education , Law

Simplified: President Trump signed executive order requiring schools to submit applicant academic information to prevent universities from using racial proxies in...

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