There are likely many, many definitions of what "maximizing learning" means. And that drives different approaches to education. Not "whether education should seek to maximize students’ learning."
That could be taken as a fairly naive statement -- there are countless successful examples of non test-driven education out there.
When was this? "Startup" suggests recent, but aloha shirts have been the most common outfit downtown every day of the week (except for maybe lawyers in court) since the nineties at least.
Or are you saying that you were super casual M-Th and put on a collared shirt on Friday?
Give ten kids from the same class a self study online course and give another ten a private tutor, and they won't see the same score distribution. Where's the signal there?
SAT results don't have a line item that notes the amount of wealth or privilege that went into preparing.
> Immigrant families eligible for reduced price lunch are able to scrounge up the money for these tests.
Some families can't. Other families aren't aware, or aren't interested. But we judge the kids in the family for that.
That said... I don't know how the _new_ system will work at fighting that privilege -- there are still lots of ways for it to disguise itself. But we have to at least acknowledge the issues with the SAT.
But, to me at least, this goes beyond privilege. This is about diversity of skills and diversity of learner profiles and moving away from linear quantification of potential.
I built one of those Wordle clones that made it into the app store. Built it mostly to see how long it would take me to do it with flutter (it didn't take long). The app doesn't collect any data or connect to the interwebs.
Not really sure how I made it through the review process, but once it got through I was subsequently blocked from updating it, with the same policy cited as the OP.
So now it's up there with a double letter bug, the stock flutter icon, and 80k downloads :)
Side note: I did get a takedown notice, which I was expecting, but it wasn't from the NYT. It was from a company purporting to hold trademarks for lingo for both look and feel and game mechanics. I tried to contact them but nobody has responded, and it actually looks like the trademark was abandoned. Plus, you can't trademark a game mechanic afaik.
The comments on these articles seem to generally come out in favor of standardized testing (specifically the SAT). I find that interesting because college admissions seemingly generalizes to candidate evaluation. And if you were to suggest a standard leetcode test for software engineering job candidates? Man, this place would go up in flames.
That could be taken as a fairly naive statement -- there are countless successful examples of non test-driven education out there.