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Although Conant and Chauncey intended to use the SAT as a tool to further democratize American education, the test has been criticized for being racially biased and a poor predictor of college performance. The advent of expensive SAT tutors and preparation courses has led many educators to question whether success on the test is reserved for the wealthy...
...Avery turned Little Red into “Red Hot Riding Hood,” a Hollywood stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf as a slavering date-rapist, or both. Anne Sexton’s poetic version from Transformations gets a full...
This new interest in not flipping out resulted in Isabelle settling for a boyfriend who Luke describes as “a pretty big tool.” Luke says that Isabelle spent countless hours with her boyfriend each week, despite the fact that he never made any effort to really get to know any of her friends, forgot her birthday and didn’t even hook up with her on a regular basis...
According to University officials, the tool of class credit is used to harness donors’ competitive impulses while directing their attention to top fundraising priorities...
These schools argued that widening class credit would dull an important fundraising tool and cost them millions of dollars...