A: No one really knows. “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 ...

The entrance test for the city’s elite specialized high schools might be given online due to the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday. A caller to Brian Lehrer’s weekly WNYC spot with ...

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 ...

In a few days, registration will close for this year’s SHSAT, New York City’s standardized test used for admissions to top public high schools. The city’s eighth graders are vying for spots at famous ...

A movement to keep the Specialized High School Standardized Admissions Test as the sole criterion for admission to specialized high schools appropriated the line, “Let my people go,” from the African ...

Q: What does the admissions test for New York City’s elite high schools actually measure? A: No one really knows. “It’s really a test of itself,” said David C. Bloomfield, a professor of educational ...