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But public opinion is against it, and most Brazilian cities are not organised to operate such schemes. The federal government argues that prisons are the states’ responsibility. It is doing its bit, it says, by offering them prison-building grants: in the wake of this week’s rebellion, it gave Sao Paulo 67m reais ($33m). But the funds fall far short of what is needed. In truth, there is no political will to tackle the issue. The public tends to feel that if Brazil’s prisons are hell, so much the better.
It is hard to suppress the worry that Mr Atkinson is getting rid of SATs not because they are uninformative but because they are all too informative: they consistently give whites and Asians higher scores than blacks and Latinos. It is foolish to deal with unpalatable information by shooting the messenger. The right way to deal with it is to work like fury to change California’s schools. And that surely means more testing, not less. Copyright © 2007 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group.
Mr Atkinson wants less emphasis on the numerical assessment of “aptitude” and more on judging candidates in a “comprehensive, holistic” way. Which sounds irresistible. Who wouldn’t prefer to be evaluated “holistically” and “comprehensively” rather than allowing his fate to be decided by a glorified quiz? The problem is that this ignores both educational experience and Californian reality. Time and again, when people have got rid of flawed-but-still-useful aptitude tests, they have chosen “holistic” programmes that are even worse (witness the catastrophic decision to abandon the 11-plus in Britain for “comprehensive” education).