Colleges and Universities utilize the ACT's and/or the SAT's as the most reliable and unbiased source to compare applicants. ... Tests scores show that there is a divide in performance based on socioeconomic class. Normally, upper class students score higher than lower class. ... Possibly this is the cause for the different test scores between children of different socioeconomic classes and not the test itself. ... The government, colleges, and because students are assessed equally through the use of ACTs and SATs causes reason for standardized testing to stay obligated for students...

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Many colleges are lowering their academic standards in order to recruit new athletes and to maintain their previous athletes eligible to play for the various sports that their schools offer. ... When 6-foot-9-inch basketball star Kevin Ross played for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, he didn't even know the score (Charen 420). Literally he wasn't able to interpret the score of the game, all he knew was whether his team was winning or losing. ... There are many instances where students with superb SAT or ACT scores are not getting accepted into universities due to that fact...

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The College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) declined from 1963 to 1980, with average verbal scores falling over 50 points and average mathematics scores dropping nearly 40 points. ... George Westinghouse High School in New York initiated a quality improvement process that decreased the dropout rate from 7.8 percent to 5.3 percent compared to the district average of 17.2% despite losing 21.2% of its faculty, an example of TQM applied to an urban, primarily minority school (Siegel and Byrne, 1994 pg. 16). ...

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" Aronowitz argues that discipline and control are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new dictated educational agenda. ... I attended Valley Stream Central High School for my high school years in Valley Stream, New York where I had the opportunity to be both schooled and educated. ... From local exams to the infamous SAT and ACT standardized exams, these exams created general stereotypes and prejudices between students who excelled and those who did not do so well on their exams. ... I personally did not excel on all of the standardized exams give...

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During the 1800's, the United States began its public education program, and Boston and Philadelphia were the first cities to offer art and music education in the new program (Flynn, 2011). ... In the 1930's, the arts education grew so much in the United States that the Federal Arts Program (FAP) was created as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal; and provided jobs for unemployed artists and musicians to work in public schools (Flynn, 2011). ... One of the studies performed concluded that students involved/experienced in music performance scored 53 points higher on...

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The article shows an objective tone when hard facts are brought up "SAT composite scores (Verbal plus Math) are 43 points higher for single-sex graduates within the independent school sector, and 28 points higher for single-sex alumnae in the Catholic school sector.... We live in a world that changes at an incredibly fast pace, people now have the freedom to express their identities and preferences safely, and the educational systems need to rebuild themselves to fit new generations....

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