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To: Walkingshadow who wrote (204442)	11/21/2001 7:57:48 PM
From: David R	Respond to of 769670

boundless.org This is a rather infuriating article describing how this nations "elite" colleges violate federal law by accepting federal funds while refusing to allow any on campus ROTC activity.

To: Walkingshadow who wrote (204442)	11/22/2001 8:25:07 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You are right, absent crucial statistical information, my statement was too categorical, for which I apologize. It is still an ambiguous datum. I would like to see various improvements in education, of course. But a lot of the data is ambiguous. For example, suburban schools tend to be so much better than inner city schools, there is hardly a comparison. White and Asian students do much better than black and Hispanic students. Although SAT scores have declined over several decades, the number of people taking the test has practically doubled. While the number of college entrants has practically doubled since 1960, the number who finish a degree has remained roughly the same. Thus, we may merely be diluting our measures by including a lot of weaker students in these assessments. These are just a few examples of the troubling questions in assessing just where we are in making progress in our schools.......