... to know to pass the tests. It is a well-known fact that many states use the tests as a means to decide whether pupils pass high school. "For many students, their scores represent whether they pass or dropout, whether they receive scholarships or whether they will be retained" (10 Reasons). To many people, it just does not seem fair that the outcome ... can make or break a student's future is in the category of college admissions. A major part of a high school junior's life is dedicated to taking the SAT and ACT tests, filling out applications, visiting colleges, and keeping their finger...

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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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... receive jobs at places, where minorities are underrepresented. The second place,[no comma; the wh-clause is needed] where affirmative action can be enforced,[no] is in colleges and universities. Affirmative action at colleges and universities is[this is debatable; needs a qualifier] used to help admit underprivileged minorities into their institute. As an assignment in my English Composition II class , my ... was $30,000 a year or below, a commonly used (and generous) metric for "lower income". (McWhorter)[unnecessary] McWhorter opposed affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mai...

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... escape from the life they had always 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 ... 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 o...

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... Barbara Gutter, who is 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 ... receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation score, of up to 150 points, whereas a perfect SAT score only adds 12 points. I have to agree with what President Bush had to...

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... civilians were being killed in the highly disputed war in Vietnam. 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 sitting at ... 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...

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