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An Alternative Approach To Standardized Testing: A Model That Promotes Racial Equity And College Access, Saran Stewart, Chayla Haynes
An Alternative Approach To Standardized Testing: A Model That Promotes Racial Equity And College Access, Saran Stewart, Chayla Haynes
Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs
Since its inception, standardized testing has long been considered an illustration of the endemic nature of racism in America and a barrier to college access for racially minoritized students. This paper explores how standardized testing affects racial equity and college access of racially minoritized students. Critical race theory (CRT) and access provide frameworks to understand how standardized testing impacts racially minoritized students as members of the college going community. Thereafter, we problematize the use of colorblind and meritocratic practices in order to propose a comprehensive critical education model for the assessment of racially minoritized students’ scholastic aptitude. Our analysis found …
Black Lives Matter, But Not Here: A Case Study, Jason R. Goode, Z Nicolazzo
Black Lives Matter, But Not Here: A Case Study, Jason R. Goode, Z Nicolazzo
College Student Affairs Leadership
Recently, the United States has experienced a wave of social movements that include protests and digital social justice movements through Facebook and Twitter. These movements have been sparked as a response to systematic racism within the university landscape and the police force. This case study looks into systematic racism at a large public university college campus. The setting is in a college town on a city street that connects the city jail to the campus. Readers will be introduced to several characters that are important to the story before reading an account of the tug of war treatment of Black …