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This year, Denver Public Schools seniors with a 3.0 grade point average or higher will receive automatic admission from Colorado State University in lieu of a traditional application. I don’t think that’s the win it’s being sold as, and I think we’ve already run this experiment once at a national scale and watched it fail.
In 2001, the United States Congress passed No Child Left Behind, requiring 100% of American public schools to show their progress be proficient in reading and math by 2014. It was an impossible bar, and states knew it early on. So when states inevitably didn’t get every kid there, they instead moved the finish line…