Rewarding “creativity” won’t level the playing field, responds Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham. The parents now prepping their kids for standardized tests will prep them for whatever creativity measures elite colleges employ. Leaders of public and private New York City schools tell visitors they “encourage students’ creativity, self-direction, and independent work (in the name of ‘packaging’ them attractively for college admissions),” Wickham writes. Students admit that “all that independent creativity and self-direction was prompted and suggested and curated and molded (and sometimes even partially done) by adults.”
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