Chauncy and Conant came up with this idea shortly after WWII ended, with the intentions that it would "create a new democratic elite that would lead postwar America to progress, strength, and prosperity" (www.the-big-test.com). ... This test, though it was intended to create a NEW aristocracy, it merely created a "meritocracy" that is "neither natural nor inevitable, and it does not apportion opportunity equally or fairly" (www.the-big-test.com). ... According to Jenks, "the average black student scores below 70 to 80 percent of the white students of the same age... ... This study reported th...

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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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According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. ... Financially it is hard for the minorities to encourage taking the SAT without having preparation. ... Also in Texas" universities, there's going to be a new law that will disregard the students" score from the SATs and more into the academic background. Graduate school would be declared on interviews, academic activities and grade point averages also. ... Teachers get bonuses if the students succeed in having a ...

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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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