... to refresh my brain on certain subjects, although I have found going over certain material has made me de-motivated. I am not intrigued as much as I would be if I were learning a new topic for the first time. The remedial classes are also not good towards any credit. If I didn't have to worry about wasting a year on classes that my teachers should have ... being de-motivating, when you are placed into the classes' colleges will no longer be using the Accuplacer test or SAT's scores. "Emphasis is also placed on public high schools to identify students who are behind at an earlier point i...

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... 900 but it wasn't my score, because it was fairly low, it was just the college. Colleges lower on the level usually supply a placement exam before entering the college and determine where the student gets placed for English and math, which makes the SAT useless. But some colleges do look at the score and only go by that which leads me to my thesis that the ... the student does in school. In most cases that is true but in some it is not. My GPA was an 86 when I graduated yet I scored a 900 on the SAT. Those two scores don't correlate. If one student doesn't fit the criteria of this exam ...

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... courts to admit its first black students on January 6, 1961. Since then, segregation has been abolished in all areas of the United States. The ending of affirmative action brings many new fears as to whether this desegregation will continue. There are fears that schools will decide to not admit minority students at all. Then the community will regress to where it ... admitting minority students who are not up to par with their counterparts. The average SAT scores were 288 points below the Berkeley average for black students admitted before the removal of affirmative action (Krauthammer ...

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... of subjects that educators feel a student of a certain level should know. Standardized tests are used by colleges and university to predict student performance. For whatever reason they are used, they are not the be all and end all. They should not be thought of as such. Standardized tests are only one tool in ... test results. The National Association for the education of young children believes that the "purpose of standardized testing must be to improve the services for children and that children benefit from their educational experience" (311). The NAEYC believes that there are guid...

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... has a downward spiral effect. They tend not to be as advanced as boys, which in turn means lower SAT scores, which causes them to have limited choices for colleges. Also, girls tend to have more difficulty in other areas of growing up, especially socially. And finally this is then carried into the work force when women get there. The tend to be paid less ... many did it the article. Then need to be reminded of what is happening in their classrooms and in classrooms around the world. Also I think that it needs to be addressed and once again demonstrated for the new teachers that are abou...

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