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Several minority students and civil rights groups, including the NAACP, have filed a lawsuit against the university system. The lawsuit alleges that current university admissions policies are discriminatory because advanced placement courses--classes which many minority students are unable to take by virtue of the high school they attended--figure in highly. At the very least, the Board of Regents must reexamine those admissions policies which are under attack...
...good time to ask this question, as the office of Dean of Undergraduate Education William Mills Todd III is currently reviewing, with individual departments, how Advanced Placement (A.P.) test scores could and should be used. But this type of review will simply reassess the "worth" of individual A.P. courses (a score of 4 or 5 on the United States history exam, for example, now counts for one full credit; four such scores would count for one year's worth of study); it will not reconsider the worth of the Advanced Standing program as a whole--a review which...
...been a backlash from some less enlightened employers, sources say. "Because of a greater awareness of the law, sometimes companies are afraid to hire people with a disability. They fear that they'll be sued if that person is fired for any reason," says Patricia Veal, a human-resources placement specialist with the North Carolina division of vocational-rehabilitation services in Greensboro...
...would be really upset if their child didn't score well." Pepperdine University president David Davenport, father of a fourth-grader who clocks two hours of homework a night, sees a chain reaction: "The pressure to get into highly selective colleges and universities backs up into high school advanced-placement courses, which backs up to elementary schools." Anxious parents can rail about what teachers do in the classroom, but homework is still one area where parents can directly improve their child's chances...
...Core program has seen the addition of a Quantitative Reasoning requirement and the end of the Advanced Placement exam exemption for Science A and B courses, while the Committee on Undergraduate Education has also raised the bar for the foreign language requirement...