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Testing Privilege: Coaching Bar Takers Towards “Minimum Competency” During The 2020 Pandemic, Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh
Testing Privilege: Coaching Bar Takers Towards “Minimum Competency” During The 2020 Pandemic, Benjamin Afton Cavanaugh
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming.
Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
Dan Subotnik
This article was written as part of an ongoing dialog about the author’s previous article, "Does Testing = Race Discrimination?: Ricci, The Bar Exam, the LSAT, and the Challenge to Learning," which defended the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, as well as defending testing more generally against charges of irrelevance, racial obtuseness, and most seriously, race discrimination. This article specifically responds to an article written by Professor Harvey Gilmore which focuses mostly on the SAT and the LSAT.
Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
Testing, Discrimination, And Opportunity: A Reply To Professor Harvey Gilmore, Dan Subotnik
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This article was written as part of an ongoing dialog about the author’s previous article, "Does Testing = Race Discrimination?: Ricci, The Bar Exam, the LSAT, and the Challenge to Learning," which defended the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, as well as defending testing more generally against charges of irrelevance, racial obtuseness, and most seriously, race discrimination.
This article specifically responds to an article written by Professor Harvey Gilmore which focuses mostly on the SAT and the LSAT.
Racing Towards Colorblindness: Stereotype Threat And The Myth Of Meritocracy, Jonathan Feingold
Racing Towards Colorblindness: Stereotype Threat And The Myth Of Meritocracy, Jonathan Feingold
Faculty Scholarship
Education law and policy debates often focus on whether college and graduate school admissions offices should take race into account. Those who advocate for a strictly merits-based regime emphasize the importance of colorblindness. The call for colorblind admissions relies on the assumption that our current admissions criteria are fair measures, which accurately capture talent and ability. Recent social science research into standardized testing suggests that this is not the case.
Part I of this Article explores the psychological phenomenon of stereotype threat. Stereotype threat has been shown to detrimentally impact the performance of individuals from negatively stereotyped groups when performing …