However, almost annually throughout a student's life of education, the test of all tests is placed on each desk and the brand new box of factory sharpened number two pencils make their way out of the filing cabinet. ... At the forefront of the issue are the SATs which are often thought of as the most influential test the average student will ever take. ... On the 1998 SAT boys were 35 points ahead of girls in math and 7 points ahead in English (Sommers 32). ... The test compares to the norm and is written for the average student learning the average curriculum. ... It is true that fem...

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The SAT designers therefore tried to create a test that was relatively sensitive to whether a student had attend a strong or weak secondary school. ... The content on the SAT is bias. ... If test like Stanford Binet and the SAT emphasized domains in which blacks were usually disadvantaged, one would have reason to think there tests ere biased against blacks, no matter what their creators or distributors called them. ... On the hand, Test scores continue to climb in urban school districts, some of which are making greater gains on math and reading assessments than their state averages, a rep...

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