When I was younger, I dreamed of going to the High School of American Studies, one of the city’s eight specialized high schools, where admission is based solely on a student’s performance on a single ...

The SHSAT, or Specialized High School Admissions Test, is the test that students take to try and get into one of the city's prestigious specialized high schools. What is a specialized high school?

A movement to keep the Specialized High School Standardized Admissions Test as the sole criterion for admission to specialized high schools appropriated the line, “Let my people go,” from the African ...