On Monday, the New York Board of Regents announced it would dump the academic literacy skills test.

They didn't dump the test, which was designed to test teachers on reading ability in order to raise standards.

Because there was anything wrong with the test per se, they dumped it because too many minority teachers were failing it.

One of the members of the task force that looked at the teacher certification test,

Professor Leslie Sudak of Pace University said, quote,

having a white workforce really doesn't match your student body anymore. It turns out that

according to ABC News, 54% of Hispanics and 59% of blacks who took the test failed it on the

first try as opposed to 36% of whites. Does that mean the test was racist? Nope. A federal judge in

New York, not exactly a best chin of conservatism, rule the test was fine. That wasn't enough, though, for the state of New York, where it's more important that your teacher is black than that your teacher can read and understand material. Sudex comments were echoed by National Council on Teacher Quality President Kate Walsh, who summarily dismissed test results. Quote, there's not a test in the country that doesn't have a disproportionate performance on the part of blacks and Latinos. But she acknowledged that getting rid of the test would be a step in the wrong direction. Here is the problem, the students. There's this weird notion on the left that students learn better from teachers of equal quality so long as the teacher shares a race with those students. A good deal of research finds

weak or no evidence to substantiate that claim, and that's assuming the teachers are of equal

quality. There is no evidence, none, Zippo, zilch, that an inferior teacher of the same race

is better for a student than a superior teacher of a different race, yet it's that latter

hypothesis New York wants to now pursue. So New York State now wants to sublimate the interests of its students to the interest of political correctness. Better for a black kid to have a black teacher who failed the A-L-S-T than to have a white teacher who passed it. Statistically, of course, this means a higher likelihood the black kid will have an underqualified teacher than a white kid since we're now attempting to race sort rather than to hire meritorious teachers.

That creates new intergenerational pathologies of failed education,

for which, presumably, the left will blame white racism and test discrimination without evidence.

Meanwhile, the kids continue to fail.

Well done, New York.

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