
The Socialist Case Against the SAT
No matter how you look at it, the SAT is designed to create human hierarchies.
Wayne Au is a professor in the School of Educational Studies and interim dean of diversity and equity and chief diversity officer at the University of Washington Bothell. He is also a longtime editor of the social-justice teaching magazine, Rethinking Schools. His newest book, A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World, will be published with Haymarket Books later this spring.
No matter how you look at it, the SAT is designed to create human hierarchies.