... president of the University of California since 1995, one of the first and largest schools to use the test, proposed to make the test optional on applications for all U.C schools. Using the SATs as a criterion for college admission should be optional because it is inherently biased and focuses on a few skills rather than general knowledge and ability. African Americans, Latinos, Asian American ... as well as other minority groups consistently score notably lower than do white students. Even blacks whose parents have the same level of education and income as a comparable sample of whites...

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... increase, addictions to this seemingly indispensable piece of technology become an increasingly realistic possibility. " Roberts, a professor of marketing at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, surveyed 164 college undergraduates about their relationships to their phones and explored which cell phone activities seemed to be most associated with cell phone "addiction. " He found that they differed between male and ... Meanwhile, for men, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were stronger addiction predictors, as were phone calls, texts, emails and reading books and the Bible on th...

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