Every year, more than 2 million students nationwide take the test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) Consequently, every fall, the College Board publishes information concerning the demographics, socioeconomic, and academic data on about 1 million high school seniors with SAT I scores. ... It is outlined in the Code of Virginia, and it states that they are "To promote the development of an educationally and economically sound, vigorous, progressive, and coordinated system of higher education in Virginia"(SCHEV, p4-5). ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- ...

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Furthermore it is very difficult from a non-European perspective to really understand your cultures" struggles unless they are presented with writings and information that come "within" your culture itself. For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... They take literacy from their culture and reinvent it to fit soundly into other cultures, where the message taker can interpret the meanings and thoughts from their own cultural background (connecting with the African-American literacy styles)....

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As exhilarating as this may sound the mountain they had to climb to receive acceptance the way they were was a very steep one. ... Zora Neale Hurston claims that this lack of interest and gap in the national literature and information is causing a strain on world affairs. ... The author of Scarlet Sister Mary said her neighbor didn't take well to the book because she portrayed her characters falsely as "everyone knows niggas don't think....

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According to Howard Jones in the book Race on Trial, "Black people had brought suit on behalf of their rights as human beings and, whether on the basis of law or morality, went freeIf they [blacks] found equality before the courts, the momentum would develop for their achieving the same status outside the courts. ... True empathy might help our country move forward, but simple words on a document that sound far from personal will make little impact. ... My thinking was also reinforced by the education I received in school because the institution never fully educated me on the racial and...

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