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ERIC Number: EJ385729
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Debate Intensifies over Skills Test for Entering Students in Texas; Critics Call It a Barrier to Minority Groups.
Mangan, Katherine S.
Chronicle of Higher Education, v35 n26 pA19-20 Mar 8 1989
The Texas Academic Skills Program, a basic-skills test that all entering freshmen must pass before they can enroll in upper-level courses, is discussed. Those who fail it will be required to take non-credit remedial courses and to retake the test until they pass it. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Educational Background, Higher Education, Mathematics, Minority Groups, Reading, Remedial Instruction, School Holding Power, Skills, Student Placement, Test Bias, Tests, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Texas; Texas Academic Skills Program