Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2-11-2009
SSRN Discipline
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Abstract
Because of conservative challenges to affirmative action standardized testing today is emerging as the chief barrier to the educational ambitions of minorities and the poor The same conservatives who have been attacking affirmative action strenuously support standardized testing equating test scores with the objective merit that affirmative action is said to ignore A host of critics take issue with that equationI outline here the case against standardized testing But before I begin I would like to note that many of us are deeply invested in test scores having done well on standardized tests and seen them open doors for us as we have gone through life Yet I would like to give you some reasons to start thinking about those scores in a different light And toward the end I will address the reaction that many listeners have on hearing arguments like these that is what is the use things will never change I provide a series of alternatives to the LSAT and ways to assure that these alternatives receive attention
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Official Elitism or Institutional Self Interest? 10 Reasons Why UC-Davis Should Abandon the LSAT (and Why Other Good Law Schools Should Follow Suit),
(2009).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/667