SAT testing company to add 'disadvantage' score to some students' exams

Personal opinion: While disadvantaged backgrounds deserve consideration, some college admission committees already do that. Essay portions of applications are where potential students can write about their life circumstances (e.g. first in family to college, overcoming poverty, immigrant family, military veteran experiences, etc.). It is there that one can express their holistic background.

It should not be with standardized testing...

I'm not quite sure where to go with this one. While there is some merit to the idea that a wealthier, better-prepared student ought to do better on the test... I don't know. Can't really wrap my head around it well enough. Need some more time to think on it.

This is America realizing that education isn't simply about getting a high paying job, but about scouring the masses of citizens to hopefully find the untapped geniuses who would never get a chance to use their untapped talents to better their country, because they were never able to make it out of tough economic conditions as a kid. Mark Rober once said that the smartest person to ever live likely died from dehydration while looking for clean water, and thus was never discovered.

President Trump recently proposed the merit-based immigration reform, where the U.S. would increase efforts to recruit foreign talent, offering them citizenship as a result of their talent(s). This isn't new and is of course focused on quality over quantity. I believe one of the reasons is because we are internally doing a terrible job of cultivating talent from within. We aren't looking at the problem from a national perspective, but from one of self-interest. National perspective might inform us that it doesn't matter what socioeconomic group the American talent comes from, as long as they are American and have the abilities, we want to do whatever it takes to grow them from within. Self-interest might tell us that if we individually didn't have such an (dis)advantage, then no other American should have it either, regardless if it puts the U.S. in a position of international disadvantage.

Just my opinion though.