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Since the Board of Regents for the University of California (U.C.) phased out affirmative action in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209, minority admissions have dropped by 50 percent (from 24.7 percent in 1997 to 12.2 percent in 1998). This drop shows the devastating affect that anti-affirmative action policies have on student body diversity, as well as the unfairness of the admissions policies that have replaced affirmative action...
...council decided in a 19-18 vote to instead put the question to a random sample of students. The council's executive board will conduct the poll and results will be discussed at the March 7 council meeting...
...mining claims on hundreds of thousands of acres of Rocky Mountain forest, and this week he is expected to halt road building on millions more acres of federal land. "Our performance should be based on the long-term health of the land," Dombeck says, "rather than the number of board feet produced...
...many states, the tests have sparked worry about the number of students who aren't measuring up. Virginia's board of education disclosed last month that nearly 98% of the state's schools failed to meet suggested accreditation minimums on the new Standards of Learning test, though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor...
...standards, was host to a conference in Washington, where representatives from 20 states pledged to work toward a shared national standard by offering uniform exam questions. In the meantime, students like Lajoi probably have less to worry about than the people in charge of teaching them. The Maryland board of education has just targeted three elementary schools in Prince George's County for state takeover because of poor test results. And the county's school board voted not to renew the contract of its superintendent...