{"id":336678,"date":"2026-05-28T23:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:36:06","slug":"opinion-california-shows-what-equity-in-college-testing-has-wrought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336678\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | California shows what \u2018equity\u2019 in college testing has wrought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5MDFNDWIOJHWTN4A2UHY6O36W4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">One target of the social justice movement of the last decade was standardized testing. Because average scores on tests such as the SAT vary among race and income groups, the thinking went, the tests must drive inequality. The coronavirus pandemic gave opponents of testing an opportunity to try out test-free college admissions, which were supposed to be more \u201cequitable.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One target of the social justice movement of the last decade was standardized testing. Because average scores on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-336678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}