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Soares, Joseph A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2020
This update to "SAT Wars" provides new evidence in the case against standardized college entry tests, including the experiences of test-optional colleges. "The Scandal of Standardized Tests" sheds significant light on key problems such as: (1) Are the tests stronger proxies for race and family income today than they were 20…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, Culture Fair Tests, Race
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Susanti, Dewi – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
Increasing costs of running educational institutions and funding educational programs, coupled with decreasing government subsidies to support such costs, have made privatisation and marketisation of higher education a common phenomenon throughout the world. The article presents the development of this trend in Indonesia utilizing two recent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Public Colleges, Low Income
Yeung, Fanny P.F. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Immigration, as a continuous phenomenon, extends beyond a singular migratory event that an individual experiences. The purpose of this research project was to explore the college experiences of second-generation immigrants and how their family relationships, immigrant histories, and socioeconomic status directly and indirectly shaped their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Experience, Immigrants
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Glass, Ronald David; Nygreen, Kysa – Democracy & Education, 2011
We critique the "college for all" discourse by unveiling its relationship to the politics of education, the broader economic and political contexts, and the class and race structures embedded in society and schooling, including higher education. We analyze the current and future labor markets to demonstrate the ways that the "college for all"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Democracy, College Attendance