Referring to the journal Tests that Fail Democracy, minority students tend not to do as well "because they aren't given the time they need to process information, write essays, and unravel foreign culture they are being asked to identify." ... Financially it is hard for the minorities to encourage taking the SAT without having preparation. ... There is not much emphasis from the school programs to help minority students to receive the best education than the other vast majority students. This is a clear gap that is beginning to widen for minority students if there's nothing to help ...

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As society becomes more and more advanced, it tends to quantify people into numbers; SAT's and ACT's are all just ways that society wants us to focus towards preparing us for the higher education that comes after these tests. ... He first starts with an allusion to a previous dream he often had before and then goes on to the banal inconveniences of being illiterate such as "reading letters, cannot help with homework." ... Kozol then increases the severity of the possible mistakes that could happen should illiterates be put into that situation "read instructions on a bottle of prescri...

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