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GOOD QUESTION be overlooked,” College Board CEO David
How does the SAT’s Coleman said in a statement.

NEWS new ‘adversity score’ Race is not a component of the adversity
TICKER score, and the rollout comes as a lawsuit filed
actually work? against Harvard last year on behalf of Asian-
Migrant child American students may threaten the future
dies in U.S. SAT ScoreS will Soon meASure more of affirmative action. Yale’s dean of under-
custody than just a teenager’s math and verbal skills: graduate admissions, Jeremiah Quinlan, has
the College Board, the nonprofit organization told the Yale Daily News he appreciated that
Carlos Gregorio
Hernandez Vasquez, that oversees the admissions test, announced the tool, which the school tested, was “race-
a 16-year-old boy from May 16 that it’s prepping the broad rollout neutral” and “data- driven.” But Elissa Salas,
Guatemala who was of a new “adversity score” program intended the CEO of College Track, a nonprofit that
apprehended at the to provide universities with a more complete helps low-income and first- generation stu-
U.S.-Mexico border, picture of an applicant’s background. dents, says leaving out race means the score
died on May 20,
Customs and Border The score, officially called the won’t be a complete picture of the challenges
Protection said. He is Environmental Context Dashboard, is students face.
the fifth Guatemalan calculated using 15 factors addressing Even without the score, the U.S. has al-
child known to have a student’s home life, community and ready seen an uptick in the number of low-
died in recent months school system, including local crime and income and first- generation students attend-
after being stopped
and detained by U.S. poverty rates, according to the College ing colleges nationwide—as well as fresh
authorities. Board. Together, they add up to an overall scrutiny of how the wealthy can game the
disadvantage level, scored out of 100, process. The College Board’s announcement
that universities will be able to view as comes two months after federal prosecutors
a supplement to the exam; much of the indicted 50 people in a sweeping college-
Tensions rise
between U.S. information it considers was already admission scandal that involved affluent par-
and Iran available to admissions officers but not in ents accused of paying to cheat the system.
this format. Students will not be able to see A tool like the adversity score will likely

Iran’s Foreign Minister their adversity score and won’t know if it have to be refined over the years, says David
on May 20 accused influenced their admission results. Hawkins, executive director for educational
President Trump of Fifty schools tested the new system last content and policy at the National Associa-
making “genocidal year. The College Board said the pilot pro- tion for College Admission Counseling, but
taunts” after Trump
vowed to “end” Iran if gram had a clear impact: disadvantaged he sees it as a start toward making sure kids
it threatened the U.S. students were “more likely to be admitted” who aren’t from wealthy backgrounds don’t
The Twitter barbs came when the new system was used to add con- get left behind. “Any context we can provide
amid a U.S. military text to the numbers. “[The score] enables col- for students’ quantitative scores,” he says, “is
buildup in the region leges to witness the strength of students in a going to be helpful.”
and the introduction of
sanctions on European huge swath of America who would otherwise —rAchel e. greenSpAn
countries that buy oil
from Iran.

PROTEST

Mississippi Food fights
abortion law A protester hit the U.K.’s Brexit Party leader, Nigel
goes to court Farage, with a milkshake in Newcastle on May 20, the
latest in a pattern of edible outcries. —Madeline Roache
A U.S. district judge
heard arguments on FOMENTED MILK SEE IF IT STICKS EGG ON YOUR FACE
May 21 in a challenge In Greece, there’s In 2014, Ukrainian Australian politician
to Mississippi’s a specific word for activists threw Fraser Anning
restrictive law that the act of throwing spaghetti and tomato was egged during
bans abortion as early yogurt at someone: sauce at Russia’s a TV interview in
as six weeks into yaourtoma. consulate in Odessa. Melbourne in March.
pregnancy. The same Politicians hit over In Russian and The anti-immigration
judge had previously the years have Ukrainian, the idiom lawmaker appeared
struck down a separate included former to hang noodles to hit 17-year-old
Mississippi law that Interior Minister Haris over someone’s culprit Will Connolly, IAN FORSY TH — GET T Y IMAGES
prohibited abortion Kastanidis, who got ears means to dubbed Egg Boy,
after 15 weeks of splashed in 2011. mislead them. twice in retaliation.
pregnancy.

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