... known was possible. Peter Sacks notes some encouraging trends in the educational system, namely the growing number of colleges and universities who no longer require prospective students to take the SAT. Also, he discusses the notion of "authentic achievement," which assesses a child's performance rather than measuring it against a national average or comparing one child's performance to another's. It is gradually ... namely state governments, where in California, a teacher whose students performed the best on a certain test received a cash bonus of twenty-five thousand dollars, while on...

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... progress or even survive. Here is some statistics showing that have a decent education while being poor is slim to none. When taking the verbal section of the SAT a child from a household making below $10,000 would most probably receive a score of 446 while a child from a home that makes more that $ ... be accepted for things with a lower qualification or score majorities are treated unfairly and minorities are looked at to not be able to achieve higher scores. Standards shouldn't be brought down. People should try to reach it with aid not have it given to them. Affirmative action and rac...

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... On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while standing up but not while they were ... fellow students. By the next week their sit down had been repeated in fourteen cities in five deep south states. In the weeks to follow many new protests arose. After a black woman was beaten with a baseball bat in Montgomery, Alabama, 1,000 blacks silently marched into the first c...

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... counteract the bias in admissions. Some educators now view admissions tests such as the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT), originally created to simplify admissions testing for prestigious private schools, as disadvantageous to women and minorities. Critics of the SAT believed the test did not adequately account for differences in social and economic background. Whenever something as ... involved in the financing or control of schools. Elementary Education and the Common-School Movement The American school system originated in the 1830s and 1840s, when a new generation of education reform...

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... areas of the country class ranking for college admittance will not promote fairness or equality to the students. The article gives academic information on the students including class rank, G.P.A., ACT & SAT scores, senior-year classes, A.P. courses completed, last book read, and then a comment from the student on their future college plans. Granesh, Earl G. "The Other Affirmative Action." Black Enterprise May. 2002 An ... rather than certain races. Martinez, Valentino B. "The Affirmative Action Debacle: How a 20th Century Solution is Becoming America's 21st Century Problem." Hispanic T...

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... white, applied for admission to the University of Michigan's Law School. She was denied. After investigating she found out that African Americans and ethnic minorities who had lower overall admissions scores were admitted. The admissions procedure is based on a points system. The points system is an admissions criteria, which is based on 1500 points that awards students for certain accomplishments and ... admissions is unjustly rewarding. How can it be justly rewarding when underrepresented minorities receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation score, of up to 150 p...

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