Daisy Christodoulou (@daisychristodoulou): "Another interesting thing about this trend is that a lot of these elite universities have academics & departments doing very thoughtful and rigorous work about assessment & accommodations. EG Daniel Koretz at Harvard. And yet the university’s own assessment systems appear to tot…"

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Another interesting thing about this trend is that a lot of these elite universities have academics & departments doing very thoughtful and rigorous work about assessment & accommodations. EG Daniel Koretz at Harvard. And yet the university’s own assessment systems appear to totally ignore the knowledge produced by its own academics. Something similar is true in the UK.

Writing in The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch reported that more than 20 per cent of undergrads at Brown University and Harvard University were registered as disabled. At Amherst College the figure exceeded 30 per cent. At Stanford it approached 40 per cent. The rise is sharpest at the most selective schools, with only 3 to 4 per cent of students receiving accommodations at community colleges.

Rob Henderson

Feb 15

6:23 PM

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