Wednesday, March 20, 2019

End of College Admissions Tests Due to Payoffs and Corruption?

Students with actual learning disabilities may feel the brunt of new rules in college testing as a result of this latest scam where parents paid to get their children accommodations that they did not deserve ("Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?," New York Times, March 14, 2019)? However, almost 1000 colleges do not use SAT or ACT scores to select new students.

Discussion Questions:
  1. What is the fairest way for colleges to decide which students to admit? Tests, essays, grades?
  2. What should be the penalty for parents paying an individual, company, or college to allow their children to cheat their way into higher education?

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