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...pressure is on the school, and they're embarrassed," the Board's Cameron said. In addition, economic hardship is making it increasingly obvious that students need a good education to make it in the tight job market, he added...
...wake of the Bakke court derision, which led to a greater demand for quantitative data on minority students, the board's trustees began debating "whether we should keep basing access to these things on our own conception of the public interest," Cameron said...
...board had submitted such figures to Congress in 1979 as part of testimony for a hearing on civil service testing, but had otherwise kept them secret out of worry that the figures could reflect badly on minorities and lead to "a self-fulfilling prophecy," Cameron said...
...Cameron said the overall score rise had been fore shadowed as much as a year ago by rising scores on local tests. ANy improvement from current curriculum reform efforts would take several years to show up in scores, he added...
...even where hard numbers are involved, those who publicize such trends are bound to notice the need for some good news to offset the bad Cameron notes, for instance, that the Board's "unplanned" third release "might have been handled a lot differently" if the board hadn't known that minority scores had climbed...