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. ... The score is obtained by subtracting errors from total ceiling score. ... Psychologists say that a test suffers from predictions bias when blacks and whites with the same score on the test- the SAT, for example perform difficulty on the outcome that they are trying to predict college grades, for example (White, 1992). ... Casserly, the executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group for urban s...

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The current controversy surrounding this issue certainly is not a new one. ... While educators argue over which method of instruction to use, children continue their education in a Phonics and Whole Language Instruction system that may fail them. ... This solution not only answers the educational needs of each student, but eliminates the in-fighting in the world of academia, and hopefully, increases the time spent on researching new and more effective methods of instruction. ... The idea is to teach children the written version of what they hear through the use of, 1) rhymes and al...

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