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Akil Bello

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2 years

I'd rather be paid well and treated well than "appreciated."

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3 years

Is it just me or does "only in theaters" sound super aggressive these days ?

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Akil Bello

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5 years

I’m so excited to announce my entry into Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Akil Bello

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2 years

According to @CollegeBoard , if you do AfAm studies you are on the path to 1 career (Activist), if you do European History, 64 careers. Chinense Lang & Culture, 48 careers. AP Dead language, 35! @MaraGay @anndaraabrams @mdawriter @JoyAnnReid

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Akil Bello

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2 years

If you're talking about NAEP scores without talking about concentrated poverty, underfunding of schools, underemployment, overpolicing, and disenfranchisement then you can miss me with all your "analysis"

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Akil Bello

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2 years

PSA: Don't read the NYT* to learn about "higher education". The NYT is on the Harvard and those other highly rejective colleges beat not the higher ed beat. a thread.

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Akil Bello

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3 years

I'd like to say . . . Pearl Thusi

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

calling on @GraphCrimes

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Calling it The Tulsa Race Riot is some real all lives matter B's. It was The Tulsa Massacre of Black people minding their business. The Tulsa Mass Murder of Black Americans by racists. The Tulsa Attack by white supremacists.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

me. the expert is me.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

PSA: STANDARDIZED TESTS DO NOT MEASURE ACADEMIC POTENTIAL. STANDARDIZED TESTS DO NOT MEASURE ABILITY. STANDARDIZED TESTS MEASURE PERFORMANCE IN A SPECIFIC SETTING ON A SPECIFIC RANGE OF SKILLS

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Dear white people, Stop using rural to mean white and inner city to mean black. (cc #emchat #highered )

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

5 years

Question from my 14 year old: If someone dies with a boner, do they keep that boner forever. Me: . . . (Please cure this pandemic quickly so this kid can go back to school).

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

How does one know if a student failing a class is failure to do the work required or inability of an adult to properly teach a topic?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Even though you’re fully vaccinated, the CDC still recommends supporting public education and not opportunity hoarding.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

So if I remember high school algebra correctly ... i just need to subtract Anti from both sides...

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 months

@aarickawash I mean . . . it depends on perspective.

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@akilbello

3 years

@tressiemcphd if you will take one of my teenagers you can have the $300 too

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Holy crap! My teenager just made cinnamon buns that are pure decadent bliss! #collegeAndCareerReady

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@akilbello

4 years

Is it me or does it seem that highly rejective colleges only want to enroll students they'll have to teach and support the least in order to get them to graduate "prepared" for career?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

I have a standardized testing joke, but the punchline won't be available for 6 to 8 weeks

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

What if test scores tell us more about who colleges were designed to support than about who is ready for college?

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Akil Bello

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2 years

In 2019 35% (7.7 million) of college students attended community colleges. The New York Times mentioned "community college" 100k fewer times than it mentioned Yale University which enrolls approximately 12k students.

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3 years

Has anyone tried turning America off and turning it on again?

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Akil Bello

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4 years

"Learning loss, unfinished learning, covid slide, cha-cha slide, whatever it’s being called this week is largely just a test publisher either attempting to show or, even worse, predict, that a dip scores are cause for investing in more testing." -A. Bello

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Akil Bello

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3 years

One weirdness in the American educational system is that we at once want diverse education (college prep, technical, trade) and standardized evaluation.

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Akil Bello

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3 years

It's my anniversary (month). I've been married for 19 years.

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Akil Bello

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2 years

Too many college search sites and college advisors focus on answering "can you get in" rather than "is that somewhere you want to go and can thrive"

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Someone needs to do a study of who argues for ACT/SAT (ie maintenance of the current system). By my count the ACT/SAT supporters are largely: white male economists wealthy rejective school grads high test scores test prep industry testing industry

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

PSA for college bound families: Create one email address to receive college related email that the entire family can check.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

elite schools = rich elite families = rich elite colleges = rich stop equating rich with smarter, better, etc stop saying elite.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

He hasn't taken an APs. He didn't take the SAT. I just dropped this guy off at a college just outside of Boston. Poor #CollegeBoard #TestOptional

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3 years

tHe SAT wAs ONe oF ThE grEatEst EqUaliZeRs for collEge aDmiSsiONs, aLLoWing loW InComE sTudENts To chEapLy PRoVe ThEir aBiliTy To cOlLegEs.

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4 years

I want my son's to grow up to be this smart, profound, skilled, impactful, graceful, poised, etc! #AmandaGorman

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Today I challenged faculty members on and admissions committee at a highly-rejective universtiy to take an official proctored #SAT or #ACT . Not one of these adults with advanced degrees was willing to do what they ask of high school students. What does this say of the tests?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

I AM DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION AT GEORGIA TECH.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

I just got an invite to hear these guys speak. What are they speaking about? A. Race and Law B. Corporate finance C. Education and Gender D. Capitalism and banking

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Akil Bello

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3 years

Y’all! Y’all! I got hired to deliver a talk to the DEI recruiting team of a major tech company, so ... I applied for a diversity recruiting position at that company ... I got rejected It’s going into my talk!!!

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4 years

Standardized tests are merely blunt tools for weeding out those who have lacked certain opportunity or resources. Standardized tests are NOT tools for discovering aptitude, ability, or intelligence.

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@akilbello

1 year

more floridians should do this ... they wanted to give parents choice . . well now you should use it!

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Why is it "learning loss" not "teaching loss" or "schooling failure"? Why is the implication that the failure is on the part of the children rather than the adults?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Dear colleges, Please write FAQs like @ColumbiaChi

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@akilbello

3 years

Ability to be admitted to a college and ability to succeed are not the same thing at all.

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Akil Bello

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2 years

Why aren't all high schools college prep high schools?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Good morning to everyone . . . except anyone with Type Racism diabetes

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

Why is @collegeboard silent on Florida's Don't Say Black (h/t @ritchietorres ). One would think that an organization that is so excited to tout its AP program would have a very public statement to make. @BerniceKing @rexchapman @jnelsonldf @nhannahjones @SRuhle @QasimRashid

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Anti-CRT and book banning is saying there is no knife

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

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Malcolm X rebuking the claim of “progress has been made” & defines what true progress means. “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.” #BlackHistoryMonth

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3 years

Good morning to everyone . . . except anyone supporting being test optional for admissions but requiring tests for scholarships.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Dear @USNewsEducation please read the room. No one wants this

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

An actual job posting on Indeed. A indepentant consulting company looking to hire someone to make up stories for children's applications to private school.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Can we also stop taking about "learning loss" and start accurately describing it as learning delay? It's not like they can never learn something once spring of a particular grade is gone.

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The entire “back to school or not debate” amid a global pandemic has really put a spotlight on how overly committed humans are to a calendar & timeline. Why? What if we change it & normalize a different timeline for education, life, and learning?

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Akil Bello

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4 years

Putting in the work on the weekend. Helping solve problems for higher ed. #NewProfilePic

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@akilbello

4 years

Good morning to everyone who is showing restraint when they really want to tweet recklessly and gleefully.

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3 years

My current general advice to parents about PSAT preparation for 9th and rising 10th graders #LosingMoney #TestPrep

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

When do we get to precedented times?

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@akilbello

4 years

How long are we going to substitute "gifted and talented" for "supported, intentionally prepared, and driven"? Asking for 29,534,351 friends.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

This is trespassing and theft, right?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

University of Alabama, which graduated its first black student in 1965, still utilizes "legacy preference" in admissions decisions which clearly favors those who had an almost 200 year head start establishing legacy status. #CollegeAdmission #MeritocracyBS

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Akil Bello

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6 years

Pilgram is badass! Nathaniel Moon is badass! The Iron Rabbit is badass! Nix is badass! This season of #IntoTheBadlands is shaping up to be amazing. I can't wait to see what Gaius Chau brings

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Akil Bello

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5 years

I just told my kids they have to prep #SharkTank style pitches for Friday and the panel will be my twitter friends. So who's in? #SelfIsolatingWithKids

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

6 months

pretty sure that was the point

Houston Chronicle

@HoustonChron

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UT Austin DEI layoffs disproportionately affected women and Black staffers, records show

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5 years

Good morning to everyone . . . Except anyone who believes that a test score is the best indicator of academic ability.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

6 years

I think all the "black friends" need to start a union and set fair wages.

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Akil Bello

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4 years

PSA: "went to Harvard" doesn't make anyone an expert on anything. Not admissions. Not testing. Not education policy.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

I'm ordering this the next time I see it on a menu

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Akil Bello

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3 years

My son and I have made our #DecisionDay choices!

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Alternative title : "How to be a white savior"

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

A quick bit of history for you baseball fans.. I was at a camp in upstate NY and saw this sign... it was a former jewish summer camp, so the street name was surprising.. So I got my @ericabuddington on

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges!

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Why do colleges ask overcoming adversity questions? Is college like the Hunger Games? Is it trial by fire? Do admissions officers have to ensure that admits are ready to walk across coals to get a degree?

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Akil Bello

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3 years

Are you really an expert if your work is not cited in the Urban Dictionary and congressional hearings? You'd have to ask someone else, I wouldn't know.

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2 years

Let's make sure you all have full context for what the rankings are and aren't . . . a thread (spoiler: they are measures of the wealth and brand position of the institution).

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2 years

The NYT has almost 300,000 mentions of Harvard. This is clearly not reporting on "higher education"

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

6 months

an admissions office not being able to determine which students will be successful without test scores sounds like, as the kids say, a skill issue.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Highly rejective schools like Boston Latin and Stuyvesant seem to have no faith in their ability to develop students and seek only to encode and rubberstamp already accomplished, resourced and supported students.

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Akil Bello

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3 years

PSA: Despite what your friend, momma, auntie who "got her kid in," or hired consultant says it is almost impossible to isolate why someone was admitted or rejected from college to a single factor.

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Akil Bello

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Intuit (TurboTax’s Parent Company) is using a claim free tax filing will “Harm Black Taxpayers” to push their products. Intuit has a history of lobbying and deceiving to sell its products. Intuit also pushed false spins of research into op-eds.

TurboTax Parent Company’s Latest Argument Against Free Tax Filing: It Will Harm Black Taxpayers

Articles published around the country repeat Intuit’s assertion — sometimes almost word for word — that the upcoming IRS pilot program would hurt Black Americans. A researcher whose work is cited by...

www.propublica.org

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Akil Bello

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4 years

Is it work from home or live at work?

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Akil Bello

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3 years

I was thinking about doing a year in review but I have no idea what was in 2020 vs 2021

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Akil Bello

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3 years

After another presentation today, I'm wondering about the ways we define a quality college. Isn't a college that accepts 76% of applicants and graduates 79% of them doing a better job than one that rejects most applicants and only has a marginally better graduation rate?

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Akil Bello

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2 years

Hot take: schools that admit students based on test scores have the highest test scores in the country!

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Akil Bello

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3 years

16-year-old commits to FAMU over Yale, Harvard, Howard

Curtis Lawrence, III, who graduates with a high school diploma and an associate degree and will enter FAMU as a rising junior, has been offered more than $1.6 million in scholarships.

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

3 years

Sorry to be a wet blanket but no one gets millions in scholarships. you might have multiple full ride scholarships but you still attend only one school and you only get 1 scholarship.

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Akil Bello

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5 years

From a work email: In 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the Bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, where he used that time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity. Also: Newton didn’t have Twitter.

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Akil Bello

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3 years

Standardized testing: past results do not predict future outcomes

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2 years

Just the boys

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3 years

The internet is undefeated

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Akil Bello

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2 years

To all the people who only see a child as deserving or worthy (of education) based on a test score . . . I wish you flat tires, flat beer and only middle seats.

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Akil Bello

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3 years

The SAT is changing. Again. Students in the classes of 2017, 2021 and 2025 will all take different versions. Is the SAT is more of an evolving business product struggling to stay relevant than edcational tool?

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Akil Bello

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4 years

Truthiness: Testing improves education. Testing is about research. Truth: Testing is a business. Testing is marketing.

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2 years

How it started how it's going

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3 years

PSA: Data devoid of context is not research.

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In the past month or so I've celebrated 1. another year of this lady saying "yes" 2. this beautiful lady getting one year more beautiful. Happy anniversary and birthday @marlanyny (she's rarely on Twitter so let's blow up her notifications)

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Akil Bello

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3 years

Of course there is one. there are probably 100 missing people who aren't white women who we'll never hear of.

Shayla Davis

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I'm shaking reading about the discovery of Gabby Petito's body in Wyoming. While we're watching this case unfold, please take 5 seconds to read about Daniel Robinson, a geologist who went missing in the desert outside Buckeye three months ago. His father is still looking for him.

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It's almost as if test scores hide a vast array of socioeconomic challenges

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Akil Bello

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3 years

My latest article explores the history of and why it's time to end the of the 51 year SAT/ACT "experiment" at the University of California.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

There is no diversity in the ranks of chief diversity officers

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

4 years

Where does one find all the lost learning? Is it in the couch? Is it under the bed? Behind the wardrobe?

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Akil Bello

@akilbello

2 years

I figured I might as well look at the entire paper... so let's try a few searches. University appeared 1.5 million times only 1/10 of them without the word Harvard.

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Akil Bello

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4 years

Now do it again with race and family income taken into account

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