O-Lab’s Jesse Rothstein, along with Michael Kurlaender (UC Davis) and Sarah Reber (UCLA), urged the UC Regents to reconsider the SAT and ACT as a heavily weighted component of admission for students. Decades of research have shown that SAT and ACT test results are strongly influenced by a student’s race, income, and parent education levels. Rothstein argues that the Board should instead use a state assessment for K-12 students known as Smarter Balanced (already in use in California and several other states) because it has less bias against disadvantaged students.

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