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Experts are uncertain about the reasons for high Asian performance. William Dean, who directs special programs in Fort Collins, Colo., where there are 150 Asian-born students, observes that whatever the students' verbal skills, "there is a universal language available in mathematics." The Asians speak it fluently. The national...
The proposal, scheduled to take effect in 1986, applies to the 277 colleges in the NCAA's Division I and requires that varsity athletes have a minimum grade point average and achieve a minimum score on the standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Although the changes--which require a minimum Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) combined score of 700 and a high school grade point average of 2.0 in a specific curriculum for any freshman participant in a varsity sport--continue to draw national media attention, the committee which proposed the controversial standards has...
The presidents of Black colleges and universities have, however, objected to the requirement that freshmen athletes have a combined score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. They are right in their outrage and objection. The use of the combined SAT cutoff point will in no way address itself to...
The scholastic success of Christian schools [Jan. 10], while admirable, is due more to their strict discipline than to their religious orientation. Rather than allow children to be brainwashed by the creationist teachings of fundamentalists, we should attack permissiveness in our public schools and restore that system to what it...