... seems to hold the key to their entire futures, but should it? No. The SAT's does not really test a person's aptitude, but the way they can take this particular test. Students who do well on the SAT aren't necessarily smart; they may just be good at manipulating the system. Some well known outstanding colleges have even begun to question the validity of using ... the SAT's to measure the competency of a person applying to college. If the SAT's measure a person's intelligence, what does it say for the student who ... on how well you take a single three-hour test, unrelated to almost ever...

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... World War I. Eventually, Carl Brigham adapted the army's IQ test for use in college admissions and Chauncey reported back to Conant about the new SAT test. Conant wanted assurance, however, that this test was a test of pure intelligence and not of the quality of the education a ... graduates were disallowed solely on the basis of inadequate test scores. Beginning in 1995, Lafayette College conducted a five-year experiment, making the SAT test optional. They discovered that the test, combined with other measures better correlated with their students" performance than did other measures a...

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... results because those students have had unequal educational experiences. For example, several students advance in higher educational classes, which give them the knowledge necessary to accomplish different sections of the SAT. Different schools around California offer a variety educational opportunities and each student who goes to these schools absorb a different amount of information. In addition, two million U.S. high school students ... get into the college of their choice. A man by the name of Richard Atkinson calls for an ending to the use of the SAT for UC admissions. "He warned...

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... are expensive. This is what makes it unfair toward lower income families. The students who can afford these programs are will most likely score higher on the SAT I exam. "Students of families earning $75,000-$85,000 annually score an average of 100 points better than students whose parents earn $55,000-$65 ... the college admissions staff should be able to see that the student will achieve the same success at college. This past year the SAT I exam has been revamped. "The new SAT is intended to measure academic preparedness." (Barnes 52) The test is not going to have any quantitative compa...

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... I taught. Exams shouldn't be the only thing that warrant whether a student should be accepted into a college." Kathy Emann, a High School teacher is against the SAT and makes a good point. There are those students who don't do tests well and freeze up, but in fact are quite smart. It leaves no space for ... 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 then there are many more. The exams purpose is to measure ... student taki...

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... ; however, the three most prominent factors are social class, age, and religion. The French educational system is also taking many steps to improve diversity within the system. There are many qualities of the French school system that play a positive role in there society. However, their standardize testing system is one aspect American school systems should look into incorporating into there scheme. Though there are ... high school students must take and pass the baccalaureate. This allows them to obtain a job or attend a school of higher education. At the start of the nineteenth centur...

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... arrived for about a thousand years ago. Therefore the New Zealand school system looks almost identical to the brittish system. It has though developed a bit differenses since their independence 1947. The stages in the New Zealand school system: Childhood education: (age 3-5/6) Primary school: (age 5/6-7/8) school year:1 Intermediate: school year 7/8-9 Secondary:School year 9-13 (age17) University/Tertiary(optional) Most New Zealand children start at the so called "childhood ... education" at the age of 3 wich is not compulsory, simular to the swedish system. Just like Sweden there are d...

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... of controlling the immediate. Its attributes are over-specialization and relativity as a result of taking every opinion into account. However, applying this theory to our school system, one might say that we are actually spared from this wrong tendency. I mean, we hardly develop skills for anything in school, let alone over-specializing, not ... teacher's. Still, if we look at the issue from any other point of view than the philosophical one, I think the whole infrastructure of the school system is more of a disadvantage for the students that an advantage. First of all, we have to study...

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Iranian Educational system The Iranian education system consists of pre-school, primary, middle, and secondary schools. Five-year-old children attend preschool for one year before entering primary schools. The primary school covers grades 1-5 for children 6 to ... the labor market. This branch is divided into three sub branches, technical, business, and agriculture. Since the Islamic revolution, the Iranian ministry of education has changed the secondary education system. Under the new plan, which was approved in 1990, the secondary education cycle is reduced to three years during which stud...

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... I believe the time has finally come where it is MY TURN to tell the world about a diligent student who is being held back by the United States Education System. This is a reflection of my personal experience throughout my life and I would enjoy sharing them with you. I had worked my way up to becoming the top ... to excel them further and push them to their full ability. I do realize though, that some students my age are not ready to assimilate into the college education system. I believe it should be based on a case by case process. The reason for this is that children do not only learn...

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A NEW WAY OF LEARNING The need for a higher quality of education has been a continuous debate with the Department of Education. School districts, nationwide, are starting to implement specialized programs and curriculums within their school systems. Redefining and modifying of our public school system has always been a topic of discussion from the President's oval office to our parent's dinner tables. For decades, parents have ... than what is offered in the public school systems. Some educators feel that this problem has already been solved by a unique school system that has been in operatio...

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Everything in this world is not perfect, including the educational system. However, it continues to be modified to make everyone somewhat happy. For example, the fact that a student is required to take thirty-six credit hours of courses that do not ... education." He was able to realize that college was not for him and it worked. However, this is not the case and does not work out for everyone. The educational system may be imperfect, but it is something that most students diligently work to accomplish and have to show for. Many high school students graduate oblivious about the realities of ...

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... corporations may even be overtaken by another corporation, employees may be required to unlearn previous sets of workplace behaviors completely and begin a whole new process. New technology and diversity in the workplace may a pose different challenges for workers, requiring new skill sets in the form of additional education, as well. So, it is of no surprise that these workplace trends directly mirror trends ... learning. Although it is common among many to believe that the quality of distance learning is less than a traditional college, as numbers of these learners grow and employers ...

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The first day of school at Crafton Hills College this fall was a completely new experience of a culture that was not known to me. Being only sixteen and also using home school for the past two years, attending school for what seemed like the first ... ...

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As a freshmen just coming out of highschool, I am now beginning a new life in a whole new environment surounded by people I really do not know is a really scary feeling. And I know that is probably not half of what I may have to face as a freshmen. In highschool as a ... ...

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... never been before. The situations such as meeting the people, without knowing the language they speak, or filling out the application for the college, were unforgettable and new experience in Linbo Huang's life in the "New World," simply called America. The most amazing thing that shocked Linbo, right from the airport, were politeness, friendliness and, unusual for Chinese, big "cheese" smile and ... the first days or weeks since arriving, and Linbo Huang was not an exception. The lock of English made him to go to college, were his next, but not last new experience has began. He was ner...

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... , I felt that I was entitled to something. A few pieces of paper and several hardback books were just not going to cut it. The thoughts of my new and questionable journey in life were quite stimulating. I felt good about actually following through with what I had set out to do. I was now in college. ... do. Where I was going to go, and what future, if any, did I have? I used those thoughts to my advantage. Looking at my new student ID card and my new class schedule helped me gain some much needed confidence. This allowed me to answer those questions that I had been struggling to answer. ...

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... freely. In many ways prospective college students are just like the pilgrims, searching for freedom and the opportunity to create better foundations. New college students also endure several hardships as they struggle to establish who they are in their new world. Leaving England was not an easy decision for the Pilgrims and in the early sixteen hundreds the society spent ten years ... society. This is also the time when a huge amount of freedom is given to this age group. The confidence and responsiblity that transpire as a result of this new change helps the pilgrims and new college st...

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... as a comparable sample of whites have, on average, scored 120 points lower on the test. (Cloud 42.) At every level of SAT scoring blacks earn lower grades than their white peers and "this remains true after controlling (at least crudely) for other variables, including high school ... difficult for such students to get into good schools and will create incoming freshman classes that are not especially diverse. Some states use SAT minimum score requirements for students wishing to be eligible for federal grants and scholarships. This disproportionately impacts minority students to whom the...

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... resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance, reliability, enthusiasm, self-discipline, leadership, courage, compassion, resourcefulness, sense of wonder, honesty, integrity." Universities have a tunnel vision perception by emphasizing SAT scores, which is an objective learning strategic that does not measure important qualities in a student. By analyzing the context of standardized tests and the emphases that is set on this ... On the other hand, reliability is the ability of the individual to continuously provide the same score. Standardized tests do not offer either of th...

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... about. However, with the drainage that is occurring from the lottery that is funding the scholarship, we as Georgia residents have to face reality and set a new bar for the free College tuition handout. The "HOPE" scholarship was set up to congratulate those that work hard in high school and give them a helping ... nothing but fail. Like Wooten, in his article "False HOPE, faux scholars" printed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (09/21/03), I agree that the SAT needs to be taken into account also when distributing the funds. If the state of Georgia wants to score better on the exams t...

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... do have their differences in action, but yet still have their similarities. In college ball the match will end at thirty points in rally scoring. In high school ball, the score ends at twenty-five, also in rally scoring. College ball is so much more intense and has awesome competition where ever we go to play. In high school either your team ... ...

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... rights to televise the NCAA men's basketball tournament. That amount would pay the tuition of Tennessee's entire undergraduate population for more than forty-four years ("New Test -). That is an unbelievable amount of money just for the television rights to a college basketball tournament. This proves how commercialized college sports have become ... the necessary skills to succeed. An example of this is shown through a sample of thirty-two ACT and thirteen SAT scores from Tennessee football players who entered school from 1995-1999. The average ACT scores were 17.75 out of 36, while the...

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... of these colleges or Universities is. This statistic isn't enough evidence to support a theory for admissions, so I researched SAT scores. And I found once again that athletes are getting very favored treatment. In Division 1A schools the average SAT score of a high profile athlete is 917. That is a 237 point different to a student at large, and ... they are still dominating college admission. The SAT score however does not back up a Marymount University athlete. The average SAT score of a high profile athlete at a Division III University is an 1126. Only 100 points lower than an academi...

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... for various aspects of an applicant's file and then accept all students above cutoff. While students could get a maximum of eighty points for their GPA and 12 points for their SAT or ACT scores, being from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group would give them an extra twenty points. However, it is still unclear how many minority students would have been ... how enrollment rates changed once the racial preferences were eliminated is another way to decipher the importance of race in admissions. For example, in 1995, the University of California (UC) System ended affirmative action wi...

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