Ivory A. ToldsonOpinionIgnoring Race and Privilege: How The College Board’s SAT Adversity Score Missed the MarkAdverse experiences and social privilege are both life circumstances that can alter a test-taker’s score on standardized tests. However, the College Board, with their recent announcement of an “adversity score,” highlighted the disadvantages of adversity, while ignoring the advantages of privilege. In doing so, the College Board treats adversity as a handicap to be accommodated, while missing an opportunity to address a myriad of noncognitive factors that make SAT scores either lower or higher than they should be for different racial and ethnic groups, and socio-economic statuses.June 11, 2019African-AmericanPresident Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Proposal: What’s in it for HBCUs?The proposal for the Department of Education has a few new items that are relevant to Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs).February 11, 2016OpinionStudy on Black, Hispanic Children in Special Ed Wrong, RegressiveAn op-ed by Paul L. Morgan and George Farks claimed that “black children are underrepresented in special-education classes when compared with white children with similar levels of academic achievement, behavior and family economic resources.”July 5, 2015Page 1 of 1
