When I posted the other day about Malala Yousafzai, I said that she had been shot in the head, survived, became an advocate for the education of girls, and won a Nobel Peace Prize.
But there is so much more to know about this remarkable young woman.
“Her family runs a chain of schools in the region. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu.
On the afternoon of 9 October 2012, Yousafzai boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. A gunman asked for her by name, then pointed a pistol at her and fired three shots. One bullet hit the left side of Yousafzai’s forehead, travelled under her skin through the length of her face, and then went into her shoulder. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated their intent to kill Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai.
The assassination attempt sparked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle wrote in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become “the most famous teenager in the world.” United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown launched a UN petition in Yousafzai’s name, demanding that all children worldwide be in school by the end of 2015; it helped lead to the ratification of Pakistan’s first Right to Education Bill.
A 2013 issue of Time magazine featured Yousafzai as one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”. She was the winner of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize, and the recipient of the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In July that year, she spoke at the headquarters of the United Nations to call for worldwide access to education, and in October the Government of Canada announced its intention that its parliament confer Honorary Canadian citizenship upon Yousafzai. Even though she is fighting for women’s and children’s rights, she did not describe herself as feminist when asked on Forbes Under 30 Summit. In February 2014, she was nominated for the World Children’s Prize in Sweden. In May, Yousafzai was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of King’s College in Halifax. Later in 2014, Yousafzai was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Aged 17 at the time, Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.”
Some readers have insisted that if she doesn’t take the SAT, she should be rejected by Stanford. I think that’s ridiculous. The admissions process for an elite college always involves a mix of priorities. Frankly, she honors Stanford by expressing an interest in becoming a student there.
Our readers have debated whether Stanford should insist that she take the SAT to prove her ability to enroll there. Some say, a rule’s a rule, no exceptions. Personally, I think that Stanford’s pig-headed insistence on subjecting this brilliant young woman to a standardized test aligned to the Common Core is absurd.
Our blog poet wrote a poem about Malala and this situation:
“”One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” — Malala Yousafzai, at her UN speech
“One student number , one ed-u-bot, one iPad, and one test can change the world. Testing is the only solution.” — Arne Duncan
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the sad part is that this “education for girls” has been used as an excuse to rape that country. it is hard to know who shot that girl, but the west is using her in relation to womens rights, there are many religions that keep women down, where is the girl that is wounded by our drones or in Gaza, will she a book deal and a reception at the UN?
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I was told when I called Stanford admissions back in 2009 that the SAT score wasn’t that important. Our daughter was stressed out that she would be rejected because her SAT score was slightly below average and below the score of the average student accepted to Standford. But our daughter was also an award-winning, scholar athlete who had earned straight A’s in every class starting in 3rd grade. She graduated from high school with a 4.65 GPA but had a lower than average SAT score.
The person I talked to at Stanford Admissions told me that there were many factors they looked at and the SAT was only one of them and it wasn’t a major factor at all. She told me that Stanford looked at the whole person (with an emphasis on many aspects and not just a test score) and only used the SAT score to help break ties because so many of the undergrad students were so close in their abilities. When two applicants seemed equal then the SAT score stepped in to break the tie.
Standford only accepts about 6% of the undergrad applicants and most of them are highly qualified.
Our daughter sent out several applications. UCLA and UC San Diego accepted her. UC Berkeley rejected her. She was getting ready to accept UCLA when the Stanford e-mail arrived letting her know she’d been accepted. She graduated from Stanford in June 2014.
The SAT isn’t that important and Stanford should drop it, because their own application process shows they focus on the person more than the SAT.
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I’m thinking that there will be no tie to break in Malala’s case, because Stanford won’t be getting any other Nobel Peace Prize winners applying as undergraduates.
I agree with Daniel Katz. Stanford should be honored that Malala wants to go there.
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“Our readers have debated whether Stanford should insist that she take the SAT to prove her ability to enroll there.”
“…to prove her ability to enroll there.” The fact that we are still stuck in such a pointless debate indicates we remain enthralled by education that rests on high-stakes testing. You know, the kind of education we’re fighting against. If we continue to bow before the gods of the bell curve, and refuse to acknowledge that demonstrating (not to mention acquiring) “ability” may be done in various ways, we might as well hand over the system to Bill Gates. He uses these tests to make himself the “gateskeeper” of who will be allowed into the magic circle of “virtuous learners.”
Until we learn how to pronounce “Stanford Schmanford” we will be in thrall to the very enemy we say we want to vanquish. Shame on us.
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Agree with you completely!!
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You make such an important point: Malala’s interest in Stanford is far more an honor for them than admission would be for her.
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danielkatz2014: what you wrote.
Backed up by what Lloyd Lofthouse wrote above.
Perhaps she should consider going to a school worthy of her achievements.
Just sayin’…
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I feel as if you are mischaracterizing what some of the posters said. Most people weren’t defending the SAT. We just said that if a college was going to make the SAT one small part of the application process — and that is all it is — then it makes sense that they would not make exceptions for anyone, even a Nobel prize winner. Given that taking the SAT is not all the big of a deal, nor does she need to “pass” any minimum score, why should a college waive the rules? I do think it’s worthwhile to use this incident to discuss whether the SAT should stop being part of the admissions at all colleges, for all students. But I’d actually look askance at a college that said “we want Malala and we’ll take her under different conditions than any other student is allowed to apply”.
It is immigrant families who tend to put the most importance on standardized tests. In NYC, high schools like Hunter College High School, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science admit on the basis of one test. A student can have barely passing grades and not show up for school half the time and still be admitted. But other students can study hard for years and be admitted. I don’t have a problem with colleges requiring the SAT as long as they require it for all students and make that test only one small part of the admission decision. Which seems to be exactly what Stanford does. Other excellent universities are SAT optional but they are SAT optional for ALL students, not just a few chosen ones.
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If Stanford was in the habit of waiving requirements for applicants, that is one thing. If, however, they have in the past applied their requirements to all potential students, then Malala should really have no problem with following the rules. If she wants to be an advocate for all those who do not have access to education, she is more credible if she does not receive special treatment. Yes, she has shown great courage, but she also came from a family that was able to provide her with an education and did so at great risk to themselves as well. If she is to speak for those who have no such privileges, an argument over whether she should meet the same application requirements as other students seems counterproductive. Whether the SAT is a valuable instrument or not is superfluous.
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I agree. And for all we know, so does Malala as there is no evidence at all that she has a problem with Stanford’s SAT requirement. Nor with Oxford and Cambridge’s requirement of extremely high scores on three A level exams.
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Thank you all; this is the most sensible string I’ve read. If Stanford requires the SAT of everyone, where do they draw the line making exceptions? For someone like YoYo Ma (who probably had to take the SAT to apply to Harvard)? For an award-winning published short-tory author (yes, they apply to Ivy League colleges)? To someone who has organized the first successful food pantry and free food kitchen in her community (yes. . .)?
Yes, the SAT is ridiculous (and by the way, it isn’t aligned to the C.C.), and it’s ridiculous of Stanfard to require it. I bet they require high school transcripts, too, or an equivalency. Either make standard exceptions or don’t. Why is it such a problem for her to take the SAT?
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It’s just a hunch, but I would say the fact that Malala submitted her application without an SAT score is no accident. I’d be willing to bet she knew that it was required.
My guess is that she was actually trying to spur the very debate that has occurred –not only about the value of the SAT but perhaps more importantly about its fairness, particularly to children in countries like Pakistan who probably have neither the familiarity with such tests nor the means to pay for them.
This young woman is very smart and this would be entirely in keeping with her personality and the other things she has done to advance educational opportunities for others like her.
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Maybe my own reading comprehension is lacking here, but where does it say she submitted her application without an SAT score or even cares whether the SAT is required?
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You are right.
I was under the mistaken notion that she had already submitted an application.
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The “reporting” on this issue is representative of everything I dislike. Some blogger posts something, news picks it up, no one actually does independent reporting.
For all we know Malala LIKES the idea that a standardized test is required because in England, where all the students take those kinds of tests, it enables some low-income students to get noticed. And many high income students don’t even apply to Oxford or Cambridge because they don’t do well on their standardized exams. In the US, if you are a brilliant junior at a no-name high school in a no-name town in the middle of nowhere, and you get an extraordinarily high score on your PSAT, colleges will come calling. The system is far from perfect, and prepping can help, but there are still kids out there who benefit.
I have a sad suspicion that the colleges dropping their SAT requirements are not doing so because they want worthy kids like Malala. They are doing so because they are private colleges and they need to accept lots of affluent kids whose parents can afford their very high tuition bills. They’d prefer not to have their college rankings lowered because those kids are not scoring nearly as high as on the SATs as all the students who they’d love to accept but could never afford their tuition.
The truth in college admissions is that except for the very few well-endowed colleges like Stanford, the Ivies, etc., most private colleges cannot afford need-blind admissions anymore. If your parents can pay full tuition, you are more likely to be admitted to certain private liberal arts colleges than a student who needs financial aid who has a slightly better academic record. That may lower the average SAT score of admitted students and enrolled students, but it helps a college’s bottom line.
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One way to test your hunch would be to know the answer to this question:
Has she actually submitted an application to Stanford? It’s not clear to me that she has.
It’s also not clear to me whether, assuming she has submitted an application, Stanford has rejected it.
It’s also not clear to me that Stanford has actually told Malala that she has to take the SAT, or either directly or through a statement to the press.
Most of the stories about this are squibs that either are unsourced or are sourced to other unsourced squibs. Some of them have headlines that assert that Stanford is “demanding” that Malala take the SAT, and then go on to cite a story that states that Malala “apparently” has to take the SAT. I haven’t seen a single story that indicates the reporter spoke to Malala, anyone affiliated with Malala, or Stanford. It’s possible I’ve missed something, but if not, people might want to temporarily suspend their reactions to this story.
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As far as I can tell, the original claim comes from <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/stanford-demands-nobel-laureate-malala-yousafzai-take-sats/"CBS news
Perhaps the CBS claim is wrong, but it’s not “just a blog post.”
Take it for what it’s worth, but it’s not clear what would they have to gain by creating the claim out of whole cloth (while clearly having something to lose by just making stuff up)
And, although it’s not proof, it does seem rather unlikely that Stanford would not have fairly quickly released a statement to squelch the claim that Stanford requires her to take the SAT if it were indeed untrue.
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That video was preceded by a tweet from an Atlantic reporter.
https://twitter.com/jeffreygoldberg/status/638719647253200896
We know the tweet came first because it was referenced (and arguably “cited”) in the CBS video.
As nonstop consumers of media, we need to be savvy enough to know what an unsourced claim looks like and to recognize it quickly if not immediately. And we also need to be skeptical enough to not rely on on the truth of the matter asserted in those situations, at least until we see some confirming evidence. It’s a shame that CBS is so cavalier about basic rules of reporting, and unfortunately it’s not uncommon or limited to CBS. This stuff happens constantly, and it’s depressing to me how little most people seem to care. We should take skepticism seriously, and maintain a high threshold for when we can proceed with the understanding that what we’ve read is what actually happened.
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That CBS News story cites a tweet by Jeffrey Goldberg as the source, who doesn’t cite a source. He just said, “Stanford is apparently demanding …” So, it’s news based on rumor.
News isn’t Walter Cronkite anymore. What they have to gain is clicks and ad revenue. CBS didn’t make it up. They cited a tweet by some guy who basically cited a rumor. That’s how news works these days.
The think is, her issue is education, and I’m sure that if she wants to go to college in the US, she will take the SAT or ACT, whichever is available for her to take in Britain. However, she is not even graduating this year. See my post at or near the very bottom of the comments.
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I don’t know which makes me sadder. The decline in journalism, in which CBS News picks up a bloggers’ post from another blogger and that is now fact-checking. It doesn’t matter if the fact itself is true or not since that is too much bother to check. But it’s true that someone else said it, so we can go ahead and publish it.
Or the posters on here that are getting outraged on behalf of a person who may very well not be outraged in the least. None of us even know whether Malala supports standardized testing! Maybe she does.
Someday we should all discuss the merit and non-merits of the SAT/ACT as a college admissions tool. But Malala should have nothing to do with it.
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USA Today this week is spreading the rumor that President Obama is getting another Nobel Peace Prize. Snopes debunked it days ago, but USA Today reported it as if it was accurate. Kind of indicative of the whole media. They don’t report any more. They just spread gossip and rumor and businesses’ press releases. That’s part of what is so damaging education.
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Many here keep saying that the rules are the rules. Unfortunately, those rules only apply to middle class, working class and impoverished Americans. See, there was once this very mediocre student who drank excessively and often made fun of others. And yet, because his very rich dad went to Yale and probably contributed tons of money to the university, he got into the school based on a legacy. It would not have matter how low his average. He could have gotten a 400 on the SAT and he would have gotten into that school. Students like the one I described will always be successful because of family connections and wealth. And he surely was. He became president. Compare Malala to the person I am talking about and then say she does not deserve admission into Stanford.
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True. Our daughter said she had some classes with Steve Jobs son, Reed, and she said she never saw Reed doing any of the work or turning it in. From her perception, she said if he was bored, he tuned out.
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Yes, but your daughter’s experience proves that the SATs were only one factor. Students with perfect SATs get turned down all the time. And students with special accomplishments with lower SATs get in. The accomplishments can range from having a stellar academic record, a special talent in the arts or athletics, or an especially famous or rich parent. But having an SAT score that is significantly below the large range that Stanford admits have will obviously be a red flag no matter how amazing the accomplishments. Or how rich the parents.
But I bet you agree with me that just because Steve Jobs son didn’t do the work at Stanford does not mean his SAT scores and HS grades didn’t fall within that wide range. There will always be students who burn out working incredibly hard in high school and then find the freedoms of college give them carte blanche to blow off the work.
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“There will always be students who burn out working incredibly hard in high school and then find the freedoms of college give them carte blanche to blow off the work.”
For instance, China. I’ve read more than once that students who make it to college in China often blow off college work once they are there and I know a few in the U.S. who did it.
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liberalteacher, I doubt a student like GW Bush was could get into an Ivy League school these days. No matter your connections, you need to be an above average student with decent test scores. The more famous or rich your parents are, the more those can be less than stellar, but no, you can’t get a 400 on your SAT anymore.
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Of course he could. Family connections. Money. Lots of people like that in Ivy League colleges, yes, even today and no, I’m not giving details. I can’t afford a lawyer.
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If they’re smart, Harvard or Princeton should immediately offer Malala an admission, no SAT needed.
I would think that any college would love to have a Nobel Prize winner among their entering freshman class. Forget about even taking the SAT. Tell everyone that you are waiving that requirement for any potential student who has a Nobel Prize.
Heck, I’d do the same thing if any potential student had a Pulitzer Prize, for that matter.
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Or Smith….
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The thing is, this whole story came from some tweet by some guy at The Atlantic and doesn’t appear to have been sourced from Malala or Stanford. The media keeps saying that she is applying this year, but she is Class of 2017, so the British equivalent of a junior. Her GCSE exam results from 2014-15 were reported. These are tests British students take 2 years before taking their A levels. She got 6 A* grades and 4 A grades, which is really great, so I don’t think the SAT will be a problem for her. The GCSE exams are not the equivalent of the SAT for British students, the are test that determine what classes they can take as juniors and seniors. (Read Harry Potter books 5 and 6 to get the idea.)
I attended a talk where she spoke this past June (very impressive young woman), and she said she hadn’t firmed up her college list yet, but was considering majoring in Political Science perhaps at Oxford. Her family lives in Britain, and she seems very close to them. Perhaps she spoke at Stanford and was nice enough to say that she might want to attend there.
It was clear from the amount of security at her talk that arrangements for security on campus would be necessary. (Stanford has a good campus for that sort of thing, and has experience with Secret Service type protection, so it would make sense to have it on her list.)
Regarding Stanford and the SAT, according to our school’s Naviance graph, they admitted a student from our local HS with a 1700 out of 2400 SAT. Clearly an athlete, though more likely in swimming or volleyball from our school than football. Stanford admissions seems very random from the outside if you look at scores, because they are looking for impressive accomplishments.
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Diane, I have $10K that says if/when Malala takes the SAT, she easily surpasses any Stanford minimum score on the SAT. Any takers?
This is a non-issue you have cooked up just to try to undermine one of the few institutions that still requires folks to take the SAT. Kids and employers out there, if you want to know which school verifies the aptitude of its students rather than allowing water-down proxies to get you admittance, look no further than those Cardinals of Stanford. At least one school still has some pride!
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Virginia, a young woman with Malala’s accomplishments doesn’t need to take a standardized test to know if she is good enough for Stanford. The real question is whether Stanford is good enough for her!
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Malala’s case is extreme enough to bring into question, why have the SAT’s at all? Somehow we (as a society) got to thinking SAT was a valid measure without really questioning the assumption.
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I completely agree with your comment (and others above) implying Standford should be honored if she applies.
Rewind, back the truck up, scaffold down (whatever!) and look at K-12 and the CCSS and their standardized testing.
I’ll reword wdf1’s comment below me:
Somehow we (as a society) got to thinking that the standardized testing required in US public schools as a part of the CCSS in order to obtain a diploma was a valid measure without really questioning the assumption.
Should public schools require standardized testing to graduate, as many colleges and universities require entrance exams to be accepted?
Of course “higher education” is different than public schools here in the US.
We are here afforded FAPE (a Free Appropriate Public Education) by law. Up to grade 12. If a student can get through all those standardized tests, good luck with the rest.
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Diane, I think that the commenters who are defending the Stanford SAT requirement are missing the point.
Yes, indeed, good SAT scores can showcase the smart kids who underperformed in school, for whatever reason, including poor schools, poverty, and so on, but who manifest their abilities by their performance on the SAT’s.
I don’t think that any of us are suggesting that Stanford, or any other university, ignore such scores altogether. We are just questioning whether it should be a requirement. I’m not saying that any student should be forbidden to submit their SAT results; in fact, they should be encouraged to take the test and submit their scores.
I am just advocating that it should not be a rigid requirement for all, regardless of accomplishments that are virtually unique, especially in the entire world.
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I sure wouldn’t want to be on a committee that had to decide when an SAT would be waived or not. Given everything we know about Malala, I can’t imagine an SAT score making any difference in a university’s decision. So what’s the requirement for waiving it? International acclaim? Given my druthers no standardized test would be a requirement.
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First, there is no minimum score on the SAT for admission to Stanford.
Second, high standardized scores are a way for applicants who have not won a Nobel prize to get noticed. They are another piece of information. If a student is outstanding in many ways except a poor score on standardized exams, it is a reason to believe the standardized exam does not correctly reflect the students academic ability. If a student has relatively poor grades but outstanding standardized exam scores, it is a reason to believe that the grades do not correctly reflect the students academic ability. It is the choosing of the students because you have evidence that standardized exam scores are wrong that makes it so difficult to say that standardized test scores are not correlated with college performance: if the admissions office thought that the low score accurately reflected the students ability, the student is not admitted.
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That’s the way they made a difference when I was a kid. I knew quite a few people who were lousy standardized test takers whose grades were outstanding and vice versa who ended up in very good schools.
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The reality is that most don’t get accepted to Stanford SAT or no SAT.
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied: 22,536
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied: 19,631
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted: 1,083 (4.8% of total men applicants)
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted: 1,062 (5.4% of total women applicants)
http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2014#GeneralInformation
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“The reality is that most don’t get accepted to Stanford SAT or no SAT.”
Yep. The number of qualified candidates for which selective colleges receive applications is staggering. I think they must drop them all off a high building and choose the class by which ones land right side up top margin up.
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I don’t think I’d want that job in admissions.
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Oh good, you’re sticking with your claim that the SAT measures “aptitude” (which such claim even SAT doesn’t make itself anymore). Way to stick to your guns. But I’m still asking that you follow that to it’s logical conclusion. Since black and Latino SAT takers routinely score lower than whites and Asians, are you saying that blacks have less aptitude? If that’s the argument you want to make, go ahead and own it. If not, can you explain?
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She should be admitted to Stanford, she is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient!
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Everyone should read her book, I am Malala. She should be admitted to wherever she wants to go to college.
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Diane: I agree with you completely. I am NOT a fan of written tests and their abilities to ascertain excellence
and this “debate” certainly reinforces that belief.
Thanks for posting this. THAT is an education in itself.
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Frankly, I’m not sure Stanford’s the best place for a true activist like Malala. I don’t have statistics on this, but while attempting to grow up in its privileged environment with a professor father who rented rooms to Stanford students for fifty years, I saw very few of them who appeared to possess the social conscience necessary to drive a life of activism like Malala’s. I worry that the status and privilege-seeking so prevalent in the Stanford culture–with most of her would-be peers there having arrived with far different goals and values than those fueling Malala–would make her feel isolated at best and corrupt her at worst. I see more real-world activism emerging from socially conscious state schools like San Diego State, from where my daughter recently emerged with a degree in Sustainability.
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I think you might be right.
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Whatever her status is concerning the SAT/ACT, there are plenty of excellent colleges in the US that are test-optional. Go here for a list:
Click to access Optional-Schools-in-U.S.News-Top-Tiers.pdf
In particular, Bowdoin College and Wake Forest University are excellent colleges for undergraduate education.
I like the fact that the testing monopolies are being challenged by these test-optional colleges. And, since they are test-optional, students who test well can still use that to their advantage.
Basically, any set of admissions criteria and the weighing of those criteria will be biased against some students. So, I think that it is better to have various colleges using different criteria. Some will use tests, some won’t. This will balance the playing field.
Also, I would love to see a large number of tests used, instead of just one or two. Why in the world should we believe that the tests we have now are either good or can’t be better? Why believe that they aren’t biased in various ways?
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If you don’t have measures for acceptance then everyone who feels entitled to attend will push with, “I deserve it” or “my child deserves it,” which would be utterly chaotic, though a sign of the times. Stanford’s situation is an indicator that so many colleges and universities have lost their way in serving society and have fallen prey the admissions dialog.
Instead, they should be leaders on the community — not in the economic, business realm but in the cultural realm needed to sustain a genuine educational endeavor (and remain above reproach in this conscious decision) — by searching for the most intriguing, creative minds and biographies to be part of their intellectual capital and collective body of academic research.
The rich experience of a student who is the child of a formally uneducated migrant worker that knows the value of education, a young person who knows intimately the cultural shift of the Swat Valley, or a clock-making teen with a school record of delinquency would be high on my ‘Who’s Who’ list. ARE THEY CULTURALLY ENRICHING?
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If a rule is a rule is a rule we might as well be robots and computers. Can we separate the human experience from the learning experience? The truth and beauty of being human is found in the learning experiences that require a sense of freedom to trust, to use subjective common sense, to explore, to listen, to create, to contribute and to love. If we get locked into rules, algorithms and statistics what will the learning experience become; what will the human experience become?
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Arne Duncan should be demoted. Frankly, if I were here I would tell Stanford to shove it and find one of many other finer institutions who, I am sure, would be glad to enroll such a fine human being. I hope she can find that school.
I, for one teacher, am tired of being forced to treat all children the same and force the pushed down academics onto my students who are already stress-ridden and also dealing with their own disabilities of TBI, ID, and Autism.
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A good article about the dangers of many preschools. Yeah for Reggio!
http://www.popsugar.com/moms/How-Play-Preschool-Can-Cure-Sensory-Issues-Kids-38426705
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Nice poem!
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There are a number of schools that don’t require the SAT, And soon it will have the same respect as PARCC and SBAC…deteriorating. Malala can choose another college if Stanford blanches at failure to complete the application process. Others would be ecstatic to have that courageous young lady amongst their student population.
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