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...they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself is facing lawsuits in France and Belgium over its role in the project. It says everyone employed on the project was a paid, voluntary adult with a written contract who underwent a physical exam and received safety training. In its annual report, Unocal noted: "If there were any possibility that our project was connected with human-rights abuses, this would be absolutely unacceptable to us." But Time has obtained unsealed court documents that challenge the company's assertion. A Unocal consultant warned the firm...
...administration isn’t to blame, then perhaps dissatisfaction is attributable to the bizarre overachievers that inhabit the university and promote the culture of complaining. Agbonyitor regularly listens to student complaints—even from students she doesn’t know. During exam period, she remembers talking to a friend in Loker Commons about an upcoming exam when an unknown student butted in. “She told me ‘I have two finals tomorrow and a paper due,’” Agbonyitor says. “She wanted her life to sound...
Four hours long, the newest version of the SAT I will do away with the once infamous analogies, and instead feature a number of shorter critical reading passages. The math section will now require knowledge of Algebra II, and the exam will include a new section called “writing,” which will focus on grammar and require an essay. The College Board took its own initiative to revamp the test, concerned that the UC system might no longer require the exam. According to the Board, “The new SAT will improve the alignment...
Despite its changed format, the new SAT seems likely only to reinforce the socio-economic bias of the exam. Consider the new writing section. According to Fitzsimmons, writing skills strongly correlate with personalized education more often received by students from affluent backgrounds. He said, “In the real world I would make one prediction, the writing, the third R, really does require small classes and lots of individual attention. You will see students from poorer backgrounds do quite badly on the writing portion...
...changes to the quantitative reasoning and critical reading section of the exam will also do nothing to fix the problems associated with the socio-economic bias of the SAT. Incorporating Algebra II will unfairly benefit those students who have had the educational opportunity to study intermediate algebra and who have had access to preparatory resources and tutoring...