Word: mathes
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...reading levels below those of the average high school graduate. Clearly, some modification of current practice is in order. The NCAA recently adopted new policies which will require reasonable academic progress of all eligible athletes. The Association also required that the academic progress include a core curriculum to include math, science and English. These developments are to be applauded and were supported by Presidents of Black Colleges. The Presidents of the Black Colleges did not oppose strengthening academic requirements. They too deplore the educational and economic exploitation of Black athletes...
Last year Harvard received letters offering it religious diatribes or unsolicited individual world views, imploring it to endorse a chain letter, inquiring on the best method to do a math problem, and requesting to use its contacts in the right wing to start a revolution--in addition to routine pleas for a "little chunk of your large endowment." They all made their way to the office of Jim Ball, a public information officer in Harvard's News Office...
...statistics are startling. They seem to indicate a correlation between socio-economic status and SAT scores, which would account for the huge racial discrepancies that exist. According to the College Board, the mean score for whites taking the SAT in 1981 was 442 Verbal, 483 Math. Comparable figures for Blacks were 332 and 362. One Black college president estimated last week that 90 percent of the students in predominantly Black schools would fail to meet the NCAA requirement...
...superior to his environment. He flunked a grade-school music class because he refused to take the course seriously. His mother once picked him up after school and found her son's jacket bulging with the concealed score of a Verdi opera. "I learned two acts during math class," Jimmy calmly informed...
...result of last night's vote, students will have to complete a high school curriculum including at least three years of English and math and two years of social and natural sciences in order to participate in NCAA Division I athletics. Athletes must also achieve a combined SAT score of at least 700 and an overall 20 high school grade point average...