Is the SAT Racist?: Lawsuit Says Test Should No Longer be Mandatory

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The University of California is being sued for requiring incoming students to take the SAT and ACT test as part of their admissions process. The lawsuit claims the tests violate California’s civil rights laws by discriminating against disabled, low-income and underrepresented minority students. Scheper Kim & Harris attorney Gregory Ellis, who represents students and organizations suing the university, and Reason.com associate editor Robby Soave weigh in on the lawsuit and if the SAT and ACT should be removed from college admissions overall. The story of Richard Jewell captured the world’s attention when the security guard spotted a suspicious bag at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park in 1996. The bag had a live bomb that detonated minutes later. Jewell quickly fell from hero to the FBI’s main suspect. Former Wall Street Journal editor Kevin Salwen and former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Kent Alexander are the authors of The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle. They discuss how the public’s intense need to find the bomber shaped the narrative and why Richard Jewell’s life was unjustly ruined forever. Plus, commentary by FOX News Contributor Gianno Cladwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen listen to the quiz at the quiz.
0:13.7	I'm Bill Hemmer.
0:15.6	I'm Dana Perino.
0:16.5	I'm Chris Wallace and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:20.0	Thursday, December 12th, 2019. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Are the SAT and ACT test
0:29.4	discriminatory? Students and the organizations who help them are suing the University of California.
0:34.8	We're not saying that any test should be eliminated.
0:37.8	What we're saying is that the SAT and also the ACT as it's being used right now are discriminatory and shouldn't be used.
0:46.0	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:48.0	23 years after the Olympics bombing, there's renewed interest in the guy who went from a lifesaver to accused
0:54.7	terrorist. Once the rush to judgment got set in people's minds and the
0:59.4	decision that Richard Jewel is it was the villain as opposed to the hero.
1:05.8	Richard for the rest of his life got known as the former suspect and
1:09.8	not the hero so much. And I'm Gianno Caldwell. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:17.0	Do you remember taking the SAT? I sure do. I studied prep material for it. I was
1:26.9	nervous about it. I also remember my score and no I'm not sharing it. I think I
1:31.4	did just fine.
1:32.6	But a group of students and organizations
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