“But in New York State, black prospective teachers failed the edTPA at nearly twice the rate of whites and Hispanics,” the book found. That was designed to address claims that the other tests didn’t actually identify who would be good in the classroom, and allowed people to submit videos of themselves teaching. Nonetheless, by 2017, 12 states including New York had moved to a more subjective test called edTPA. The teaching exam also correlated with GPA, where blacks tended to have lower GPAs as well as teaching exam scores. That is, we found significant differences in average scores between test takers of different racial/ethnic subgroups,” the study said. The NEA said that’s because Praxis is also racist - but its own study did not support that, according to the book “ Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Education.” “The results from our analyses were consistent with results from similar tests of academic skills, such as the SAT and ACT. “The largest differences exist for African-American test takers, with passing rates that are lower than White test takers by 35% or more,” the NEA study found. According to a 2011 study co-written by the National Education Association teaching union, Praxis’ results were similar to the New York City test. Most states use an exam called Praxis to credential their teachers.

More than 90% of whites passed the test, while only 53% of blacks and even fewer Hispanics did.īut the idea that those statistics prove that the test was racist, rather than properly reflecting knowledge levels, is undercut by the results of the teaching exams used since. The settlement concerns the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test, which prospective teachers took between 19.

One anonymous Brooklyn principal told The Post the city was “crazy” to settle the case because “The standards are the standards … To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls**t.” The Post interviewed 64-year-old Herman Grim, who will be paid $2,055,383 after failing the test “a lot.” He could not provide any examples of how the questions were racist. Some individuals who never worked as teachers will get more than $1 million each, and could even get pensions which will inflate the cost well beyond $1.8 billion, the New York Post reported. New York City will pay nearly $2 billion to black and Hispanic people who wanted to become teachers but failed the exam, settling a lawsuit that alleged that the disparate passage rates showed that the test was racist.

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