Article Summary Article I. The SAT's Greatest Test: Social, legal, and demographic forces threaten to dethrone the most widely used college-entrance exam. SAT, a standardized testing used for college entrance exam have experienced a lot of turbulence and criticism for the past two decades. Crit...

Introduction: There are many requirements in life that we must meet in order to survive. These requirements we must pass may be for a job, a loan, to participate in a sport or even to attend a college or a desired university. Ever since I was a little kid I was always talking about what college I w...

Affirmative action can be defined as action taken to compensate for past unfairness in the education of minorities. The current system of affirmative action allows universities to admit applicants from certain ethnic and minority groups with lower credentials. The main purpose of affirmative action ...

Affirmative action can be defined as action taken to compensate for past unfairness in the education of minorities. The current system of affirmative action allows universities to admit applicants from certain ethnic and minority groups with lower credentials. The main purpose of affirmative actio...

Schools of higher education have strict admission standards on the academic performance of perspective students. To even be considered as an applicant, students must first complete the SAT or ACT, both of which are standardized tests. The scores from these examinations along with their high sc...

Affirmative Action is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups. The phrase affirmative action was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Execu...

Affirmative action, as defined by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, is "an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women." This sounds like a very positive thing, however in its course of action, it causes reverse discrimination against g...

School Choice: Public Education vs. Home School When Americans think of education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the years, it is slowly changing. Many parents today are deciding to home-school their children. Although most people think that a public educatio...