Video: Why Standardized Testing Is Racist - Rep. Jamaal Bowman

[Donkees]

Mar 19, 2021

Since No Child Left Behind was implemented in 2001, the test prep industry has grown 400%. Meanwhile the achievement gap between Black, Latino, and low-income kids and their wealthy and white peers hasn’t budged. Rep. Jamaal Bowman sat down with us to talk about the harm that standardized testing is causing, and call for our country to reimagine schooling.

[Klaralven]

1. Back in the '50s, in our one-room schoolhouse, we took standardized tests.

I believe the tests came from Iowa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Assessments

On the other hand, we didn't have running water.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The Iowas were still being given here in Philly (yes the city)

through part of the '60s, then they changed up here and started giving us the "CAT"s (California Achievement Tests). Later PA had it's own "PAT" (Pennsylvania Achievement Test) and nowadays, the kids get the renamed version "PSSA"s (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment).

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Never forget...NEVER forget what has been drilled into you since kindergarten;

Am Erica is the GREATEST country to have ever existed.

So just shut the fuck up already and take what you got coming to you.