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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, David Coleman, head of The College Board, insists that the changes were not due to political pressure. Fair assessment is essential to achieving true education equity. For more than a century, the College Board has successfully manipulated public perception to perpetuate false notions of intelligence and achievement.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

It proposed abolishing the residency requirement whilst suggesting reserving the degree for those who had either passed the Honours examination either in two subjects, or achieved the ‘higher Honours in one’. [14] 15] By contrast, the Trinity College Dublin Commission in 1853 was more reform-minded. B.D., &c. degree in 1880. [24]

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