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Robert A. Schaeffer, public education director for the Fairtest organization, stated Fairtest's position that the SAT should be optional for college-bound seniors...
...require the admissions testing game is a distortion of the educational process--it reinforces societal discrimination," Schaeffer said. "[Placing] importance on test scores deters otherwise qualified applicants from applying to colleges...
...According to Schaeffer, the problem of standardized testing fairness has recently had a controversial place in college admissions. On Monday, federal judges in Philadelphia ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) minimum SAT requirement was racially biased and not educationally related...
...minimum requirements exclude African American athletes, low-income kids, and women in general," Schaeffer said...
...Schaeffer offered statistics about SAT gender fairness. He said that women, who make higher grades in high schools, on average score 42 points lower...