Standardized Testing Isn't Right For College Admissions

Forget standardized testing as the basis for college admissions. Our guest says that's what's turning higher education into a "testocracy." Lani Guinier, civil rights scholar and professor of law at Harvard University Law School and author of The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America (Beacon Press, 2015), argues against standardized testing as the means of determining merit for college admission and explains how to select for her alternative, "democratic merit."