In the growing age of standardized testing, NYC elite private kindergartens are forgoing the 45-year standard, the IQ tests, for the “Educational Records Bureau's brand-new Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners.” This new standardized test will be administered on an iPad, cost $65, and has starting tutoring rates ranging between $140 and $200 a session. One of the elite schools, Horace Mann, explained the switch as “ensur[ing] that every applicant for Kindergarten and First Grade at Horace Mann School has completed a standardized measure of reasoning and achievement that is psychometrically valid… [and the score report from this test] is the only piece of the application that is consistent and objective.” But can any part of the four-year old mind truly be measured in terms of reasoning? How do you feel about the move made by this school? Click HERE to read the full article.
