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What these men represent to me is terrifying, the opposite of everything I've worked for. I grew up as a gay man at a liberal, mostly Jewish high school in Los Angeles, and have worked with gay rights groups in some form since tenth grade...
Unless a better replacement can be found, colleges need the SAT to differentiate between applicants, especially in the age of grade inflation. The College Board reported that last spring 37 percent of the 1.1 million students who took the test prior to graduating in June had averages of A- or above in high school. Without the SAT, universities cannot judge these 400,000 applicants by one standard measure. Giving added weight to extra-curricular activities is certainly not the answer, especially in a time of trumped-up resumes and frivolous clubs and honor societies...
...while each school has its own criteria for judging these applications, Michelson says that most schools balance MCAT scores, grade point average, recommendations, experiences and the personal statements as the primary evaluative measures. From those criteria, the school then chooses a select portion of students to interview...
Goodman's and Smith's theories have been put into practice very directly. At a whole-language school in New York City that TIME visited, a first-grade teacher had put a Post-it on the last word on every page of a book. The children tried to guess the hidden words. "Why do I cover words when we read a new book?" the teacher asked. "So that we can practice our skipping strategy. That's your most important skill...
...debate, perhaps the most pernicious is that teaching phonics is harmful to poor and minority students. Leslie Patterson, a professor of education at the University of Houston, voices a common concern: "One of the risks, when we focus on the alphabetic principle and give tests in the first grade to identify kids with problems," she says, "is that we will end up identifying the kids who are growing up in poverty and who need much more than just letters and sounds." But it is the children growing up in poverty, in settings where little reading may be done, who need...