COALITION CLAIMS TEST IS RACIST.Byline: David R. Baker Staff Writer Branding the statewide Stanford 9 tests racist, a coalition of parents and teachers Tuesday demanded the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. district stop using them. The Coalition for Educational Justice also blasted the district's effort to end social promotion and said students should be allowed to move on to the next grade level despite poor performance. ``We believe that high-stakes standardized tests, such as the Stanford 9, and policies of student retention are racist, class-biased and bad educational policy,'' said Alex Caputo-Pearl, a teacher at John Muir Middle School A middle school part of the Huron Valley School District located in Milford, MI. It is located in Milford, MI in Oakland County, MI. It is directly across the street from Baker Elementary. Muir Middle School serves grades 6 through 8. The mascot is the Hawkeye. and one of 45 coalition members who demonstrated Tuesday outside a school board meeting. ``It's convenient to scapegoat low-income students and students of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color through high-stakes testing A high-stakes test is an assessment which has important consequences for the test taker. If the examinee passes the test, then the examinee may receive significant benefits, such as a high school diploma or a license to practice law. and retention when addressing the real problems in schools would take so much money.'' Both the Stanford 9 and the end of social promotion have been mandated by the state, and Los Angeles Unified officials Tuesday said they had no intention of dropping either one. ``I don't support socialist promotion,'' said school board member David Tokofsky. Coalition members called into question the entire development of standardized tests, with one member saying they grew out of the eugenics eugenics (y  jĕn`ĭks), study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. movement of the late 19th century that sought to identify superior and inferior human beings. ``Not surprisingly, these so-called scientists concluded that people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important were mentally inferior,'' said Elsa Jimenez, a fifth-grade teacher at Menlo Avenue Elementary School. |
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