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. ... The first point he notes is that "improvements on the TAAS are not correlated to improvements on other standardized tests", moreover, "teachers were teaching them how to take the exam "(Boese). ... They cannot write a letter to the teacher "(Kozol). ... Kozol then increases the severity of the possible mistakes that could happen should illiterates be put int...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Only recently have I begun to appreciate how invaluable literacy really is. ... I've made the realization that I have always had a love for the communication of information through reading books, manuals, or websites and being able to write or speak about the information I possess in order to share it with others. ... Perhaps instead of dreading reading chapters, writing essays or solving lengthy equations I once thought were meaningless wastes of time, I would have viewed them as checkpoints aimed towards perfecting my own literary practices. ... In my earlier years I didn't realize...

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Within this essay the extent of change will be realized, yet limited to continued male empowering traditions. ... Ancient Indian Grammarians, such as 'Patanjali and Katyayana' write that women were educated in many ways early in the Vedic period.2 This education coincided to women having a voice, the power of important decision-making, including free will to choose their husband. ... It is commonly mentioned that salt protests were successful become of women, 'for not only making salt, but sat openly at markets selling and buying it'. 16 The effectiveness behind the Ghand...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate