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The recently-released Metis validation study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test has portrayed the SHSAT in a more favorable light than the facts warrant. Although Metis found that SHSAT ...

“It’s really a test of itself,” said David C. Bloomfield, a professor of educational leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College and The CUNY Graduate Center. “The test ought to be aimed at ...

This past September, in keeping with a campaign promise by Mayor de Blasio to address the underrepresentation of African-American and Latino students in the city’s specialized high schools, the ...