Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? ... Affirmative action requires proactive steps to provide equal opportunities in employment as well as access to education. Many affirmative action programs were born from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ...

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Does seniority play a role in affirmative action? ... Affirmative action requires proactive steps to provide equal opportunities in employment as well as access to education. Many affirmative action programs were born from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ...

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Which factor does America as a nation value more finically defense, or education? ... The first is funding, how much money as a nation are we spending on defense and education? Although money spent is not always a concrete sign of overall importance, it does however help lay the frame work to find the answer to this question. ... In the same Department of Defense briefing in which Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Christine Wormuth laid the logic behind the budget request , Lieutenant General Mark Ramsey stated in exact figures just how much the Department of Defense would ask for the fisca...

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