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Asian American Pacific Islander

Opinion: Exam Winners and Losers

Issues of Race, Testing and Selectivity Before the Supreme Court

April 22, 2009

SAT-optional Will Trend Take Off or Sputter?

If you’re one of those students afraid standardized test scores don’t paint the full picture of your potential, your options are growing.

April 19, 2009

LULAC Calls for Culture-based Educational Approach and Accountability To Stem Dropout Rate Among Minorities

Reforming the No Child Left Behind Act to promote higher accountability standards for the nation’s high schools, inclusive and equitable testing and culture-based curricula may help stem the wave of minority high school student dropouts and shrink the achievement gap, a panel of educators and activists said at a LULAC meeting here this week.

July 10, 2008

In Brief: South African Dorm in Racist Video Site For New Diversity Center

South African university dorm involved in racist video to become diversity institute; Wake Forest drops SAT requirement; and a professor whose wife died in Virginia Tech shootings to head new peace center.

May 28, 2008

Business School Admissions Offices Increasingly Accepting GRE General Test

An increasing number of graduate business schools are accepting the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test for admission, in addition to the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), according to the Educational Testing Service.

April 17, 2008

ETS and HBCU Deans Work to Improve Students’ Praxis Scores

Deans and other administrators from teacher-education programs at historically Black colleges and universities who attended a conference at the Educational Testing Service here say they are taking back information to give their students a better chance at passing qualifying and certification tests.

February 21, 2008

The New Genealogy

It’s leading Americans to discover their multiracial roots.

February 20, 2008

More Americans Are Discovering Theirs Multiracial Roots

Genealogical Web sites and genetic ancestry testing allow more people to trace their multiracial backgrounds.

February 20, 2008

The New Genealogy

It’s leading Americans to discover their multiracial roots.

February 20, 2008

ETS, La Raza Conference: English-language Learners Fastest-growing Segment of U.S. School Population

Princeton, N.J. Educators and policy-makers answered the call to attend a two-day conference convened by Educational Testing Service and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to assess progress in educating students who are not proficient in English when they enter American schools and to discuss research on potential solutions.

January 17, 2008

Researchers’ Assessment of NCLB Shows Need for Improvement

With the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act looming on the horizon this year, the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP/PDC) at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies recently completed a collection of essays containing several critiques of the law as well as proscriptions for change.

January 16, 2008

ACE Reports the Lowest GED Pass Rate in Five Years

Just 68 percent of General Educational Development (GED) test-takers passed the high school equivalency exam in 2006 — the lowest pass rate since a more rigorous exam was introduced five years ago, a recent analysis by the American Council on Education (ACE) indicates.

November 26, 2007

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