#BTColumn – Debating the Common Entrance Exam
Article by June 23, 2021
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by
Dr Garry Hornby
One of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the Town Hall meetings, planned by the Ministry of Education, and other opportunities to debate education reform that includes abandoning the Common Entrance examination (CEE), have not yet taken place.
But with three articles published in last Tuesday’s
Barbados TODAY on this topic, following several articles in previous weeks, it seems that the debate is finally taking off, courtesy of
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A broad revolution is underway in the United States as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected by schools, corporations, and governments in favor of quotas based on race and gender.
On taking office, President Joe Biden signaled that the nation’s long-held principle of equality for all had come to an end, signing executive orders to advance racial equity “across the Federal Government” equity referring to the idea that merely treating everybody the same is not enough, and that an equal outcome for all people has to be the goal.
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A broad revolution is underway in the United States as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected by schools, corporations, and governments in favor of quotas based on race and gender.
On just his sixth day in office, President Biden signaled that the nation’s long held principle of equality for all had come to an end, signing an executive order declaring that “racial equity is not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government” equity referring to the idea that merely treating everybody the same is not enough, and that an equal outcome for all people has to be the goal.