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- Title
REFLECTIONS ON SELECTIVITY.
- Authors
Glater, Jonathan D.
- Abstract
Selective public high schools, which do not and cannot enroll all the students who want to attend, face a daunting challenge. New York City's elite high schools illustrate the problem: Longstanding student selection practices, including an all-important standardized admission test, perpetuate racial inequality. The student population at these schools is less Facially diverse than that of the City overall, and that pattern has resulted in litigation. Yet parents of children who are members of groups currently overrepresented at these elite schools also will (and have) challenged changes to student selection criteria to promote accessibility to students who are members of historically excluded groups, primarily Black and Latinx students. Schools walk a doctrinal knife's edge because there is no neutral baseline to look to.for determining when student selection processes are fair. This Essay analyzes the conimdrum and suggests that prioritizing fairness, which would manifest in a student body that looks more like the larger applicant pool, provides the answer.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); SELECTIVE admission (School); PUBLIC schools; RACE discrimination in education; ACHIEVEMENT tests
- Publication
Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 5, p1121
- ISSN
0199-4646
- Publication type
Article