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The Great Debate About the SHSAT: in Support of Merit and Diversity The Great Debate About the SHSAT A The Great Debate about the SHSAT: In Support of Merit and Diversity The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation The Great Debate About the SHSAT: In Support of Merit and Diversity The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation ii The Great Debate About the SHSAT The Great Debate About the SHSAT iii Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Voices of Brooklyn Tech Students and Alumni ................................................................................................ 5 More diverse specialized schools, without scrapping the admissions test. Ange Louis ’19; NY Daily News; 06.05.18 ......................................................................................................................6 SHSAT: Yay or Nay. Editorial, The Survey, Brooklyn Tech’s Student Newspaper; 06.19.19 ...................................................................7 Keep the high school admissions test but give more blacks and Latinos the tools to succeed. Wilton Cedeno ’82; NY Daily News 03.20.19 ..............................................................................................................10 Why DOE Should Keep “Elite” Entrance Exam. Fay Moore ’76 The Chief; 10.27.14 ...............................................................................................................................11 Kids can rise to this challenge: The right response to low Specialized High Schools admissions rate for blacks and Latinos is to fix the system. Kirsten John Foy ‘94; NY Daily News; 03.17.19 .........................................................................................................12 Statement of Public Advocate Jumaane Williams before the NYS Assembly Education Committee: ‘More Specialized High Schools, Better Support for Students of Color’. Jumaane Williams ‘94; BK Reader; 05.13.19 ..............................................................................................................13 2. First Public Statement of Our Position ..........................................................................................................15 Don’t fiddle with entry test to NYC’s top high schools. Larry Cary, AM New York; 10.23.14 ..............................................................................................................................16 3. The Relationship of Specialized Education to the Future of NYC ....................................................................17 Today’s kids, tomorrows’ employees: Amazon and Google may be expanding here, but New York City’s schools aren’t preparing kids for that future. Larry Cary, NY Daily News; 11.11.18 ...........................................................................................................................18 Jobs of the Future Come from The Right Education. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 02.21.17 .........................................................................................................................19 4. Equity and Excellence ..................................................................................................................................20 Excellence & Equity’ Must Include Smart Approach to Top High Schools Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 09.13.16 .........................................................................................................................21 iv The Great Debate About the SHSAT 5. Proposals to Improve Diversity ....................................................................................................................23 Time to Diversify New York City’s Discovery Program. Larry Cary, City and State; 06.23.17 .............................................................................................................................24 Keep Stuy test but get students ready. Larry Cary, NY Daily News; 10.21.15 .......................................................................................................................... 25 Why the city’s changes to the Specialized High School Admissions Test make sense. Larry Cary, NY Daily News; 01.20.17 .......................................................................................................................... 26 Don’t mess with the test for the city’s top high schools – fix the real problem. Larry Cary, NY Post; 05.16.18 ....................................................................................................................................... 27 6. Countering the Politics of Misinformation.....................................................................................................29 The Schools Chancellor Goes Rogue on Specialized High School Admissions. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 11.25.19 ........................................................................................................................ 30 The SHSAT isn’t racist: A careful look at the Hecht-Calandra law shows it was not motivated by bigotry, nor did it initially harm blacks and Hispanics. Larry Cary, NY Daily news; 09.03.19 ............................................................................................................................31 Enough DOE Deception Around Admittance to Specialized High Schools. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 02.06.19 ........................................................................................................................ 32 A Closer Look at This Year’s Specialized High School Admissions. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 03.18.19 ........................................................................................................................ 34 De Blasio’s SHSAT learning curve: The city is fighting his reform plans; he and Richard Carranza should back down. Larry Cary, NY Daily News; 06.25.19 .......................................................................................................................... 35 Better Understanding Entry to the City’s Specialized High Schools. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 03.27.15 ........................................................................................................................ 36 Diversity at New York’s Elite High Schools A Brooklyn Tech alumnus explains why greater diversity was achieved in the 1970s till the mid-1990s. Larry Cary, NY Times; 06.25.18 ..................................................................................................................................... 38 Black and Latino Student Enrollment at Brooklyn Technical High School, 1976-1995 (Table) ....................... 39 7. Tech Alumni Foundation’s Pilot Stem Pipeline Program for Underrepresented Brooklyn Youth ........................40 The Right Model to Follow for Diversity at Specialized High Schools. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 03.11.18 .........................................................................................................................41 Real Answers to Improve Diversity at the Specialized High Schools. Larry Cary, Gotham Gazette; 03.10.15 ........................................................................................................................ 42 Creating a STEM Pipeline for Middle School Students, Report and Analysis of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, National Grid, and Brooklyn Technical High School’s Cosponsored Middle School Science and Technology STEM Pipeline Program; 12.19 ........................................................................ 44 The Great Debate About the SHSAT v 8. White Paper .................................................................................................................................................57 The SHSAT – Disparities Impacting Diversity, Opportunity and Achievement in NYC Public Schools: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Change BTAF, October 2018 ........................................................................................................................................................ 58 9. Metis Report ...............................................................................................................................................83 SHSAT Predicts Whether Students Will Succeed in School, Study Finds Tyler Pager, NYT; 08.03.18. ............................................................................................................................................ 84 The Specialized High School Admissions Test and High School Academic Achievement (Metis Report) ................................................................................................................................................................. 86 10. Alumni Legislative Position Statements ...................................................................................................... 103 Comprehensive Action Plan for Promoting Diversity and Supporting Opportunity and Achievement in New York City Public Schools. BTAF, Fall 2018 .............................................................................................................................................................. 104 Why We Oppose the NYC DOE Specialized High Schools Proposal BTAF, Spring 2019 ........................................................................................................................................................ 107 Memorandum of Support for S6510, April 2019 ....................................................................................................
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