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Research has shown that standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT often put low-income and minority students at a disadvantage because the questions may unintentionally contain cultural biases.

So what questions are culturally biased? For a while the only solid example those opposed to the SAT regularly came up with was about a regatta.

12 posted on 08/02/2015 7:28:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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To: KarlInOhio
"So what questions are culturally biased?"

I would bet many poor white kids didn't know the same words that many blacks supposedly didn't understand. I guess the test haters assumed all white kids were from filthy rich families with a fleet of yachts at their disposal. The whole culturally biased verbal part was always a crock.

21 posted on 08/02/2015 8:39:02 PM PDT by driftless2
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