> Is there some aspect of standardized tests that makes the test easier for rich white kids while making it harder for others?
Rich white kids are less likely to have, for one of many examples, been deliberately exposed to toxic levels of lead by action of their state government.
There are a myriad of other unequally-distributed social and environmental impacts on cognitive function and academic ability, and evaluations of standardized testing tend to control for very few of them.
Standardized testing reveals uncorrected racial and economic injustice, it isn’t the source of it. Blaming standardized testing is a way of avoiding addressing the problems it reveals.
Rich white kids are less likely to have, for one of many examples, been deliberately exposed to toxic levels of lead by action of their state government.
There are a myriad of other unequally-distributed social and environmental impacts on cognitive function and academic ability, and evaluations of standardized testing tend to control for very few of them.
Standardized testing reveals uncorrected racial and economic injustice, it isn’t the source of it. Blaming standardized testing is a way of avoiding addressing the problems it reveals.