Dumping SATs is Political, Not Practical
The Pope Center’s Jay Schalin defends an article against a professor’s critique.
House moves to repeal tuition waiver
Jun 16, 2005 ·
Martin Center Staff
RALEIGH – A provision in the state House’s version of the state budget would eliminate the controversial tuition waiver program for graduates at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
Created during the 2003 budget negotiations, the tuition waiver gives NCSSM graduates free tuition if they choose to attend any school in the University of North Carolina system. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Guilford County Democrat, pushed the tuition waiver policy through the General Assembly in 2003, saying at the time that the tuition waiver was one of the best provisions in the budget because it would keep more of North Carolina’s brightest students in the state.
The SAT or the racial gap it measures?
Jul 19, 2002 ·
Jon Sanders
What is so wrong with the SAT that it needs an overhaul? The SAT is, quite frankly, too objective — and one of the things it measures objectively is the vast difference in educational preparation between black and white students.
Lawmakers Consider Study of Alternatives to SAT
May 10, 2001 ·
Martin Center Staff
State education leaders may study replacing the use of the SAT and ACT in college admissions with the state’s end-of-course tests.
Dropping Scores to Admit More Minorities Means “Strange Bedfellows”
Sep 8, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
Large public university systems in California, Texas and Florida may have increased minority enrollment in the face of an end to affirmative action. But the change may not be the result of increased minority test performance. In fact, many schools are dropping the SAT and ACT academic achievement exams as admissions requirements altogether, according to a recent USA Today report, automatically admitting students who are top-ranked in their high schools.