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The Economist
The Economist
16 Apr 2025


NextImg:America’s progressives should love standardised tests
United States | Hurrah for exams

America’s progressives should love standardised tests

New evidence in a long-running argument

|NEW YORK

SOMETIMES POLITICAL fights go on long after evidence that should settle the argument has come in. Such is the case with standardised tests. In February the Trump administration warned universities that eliminating standardised admissions tests to achieve racial diversity would be illegal. The Biden administration took the opposite stance: it encouraged colleges to consider dropping admissions tests like the SAT or ACT, which critics have long said favour the wealthy and disadvantage black Americans. In 2020, which already seems like another era, Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist”, called the tests “the most effective racist weapon ever devised to…exclude [black and brown students] from prestigious schools.”

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The joy of test”

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