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May 19, 2006 11:26

at The College Board- yes the SAT and AP people- has me thinking. There's this ginormous push for everyone to go to college. It's considered a failure on the part of a the public education system that not everyone does go. Now as equality of opportunity, I realize that not all schools are eneabling all of the college capabale and college ( Read more... )

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nietzschean_cut May 19 2006, 15:54:40 UTC
and yes, I have a BA but fail to type, punctuate, and otherwise be grrammatticcally perfect. But my standardized verbal scores were excellent :-p

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silverthief2 May 19 2006, 17:30:53 UTC
Not to mention that your LJ icon doesn't work. Heh.

I have many comments about this, particularly the state of standardized testing. I will call, perhaps.

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nunc_dimittis May 20 2006, 21:32:15 UTC
"Examinations are an academic superstition."
- philosophy professor

who left Duke to come to Notre Dame :p
(he left Yale to go to Duke, though, so that's something)

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drathena May 26 2006, 01:32:28 UTC
Amen. (except for maybe that last sentence, but y'know...)

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