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The recently-released Metis validation study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test has portrayed the SHSAT in a more favorable light than the facts warrant. Although Metis found that SHSAT ...

“It’s really a test of itself,” said David C. Bloomfield, a professor of educational leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College and The CUNY Graduate Center. “The test ought to be aimed at ...

The SHSAT, or Specialized High School Admissions Test, is the test that students take to try and get into one of the city's prestigious specialized high schools. What is a specialized high school?

This past September, in keeping with a campaign promise by Mayor de Blasio to address the underrepresentation of African-American and Latino students in the city’s specialized high schools, the ...