Past Coverage

• Colleges Urge Civil-Rights Office to Revise Guidelines on Testing - July 23, 1999
• Civil-Rights Office Questions Legality of Colleges' Use of Standardized TestsDiscrimination in Colleges' Policies on Test Scores? - May 28, 1999
• Test Guidelines Will Coerce Colleges and Cheat Students - July 2, 1999
• In New Guidance, Education Department Softens Its 'Anti-Test' Rhetoric - January 7, 2000
• Affirmative-Action Defenders Push Colleges to Back Draft Guidelines on Testing - June 25, 1999

Featured Commentary

• The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

  The Berkeley students who protested the big tuition increase at the University of California impressed Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.

• Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom

  Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.

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  A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy

  Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules that violate its religious views? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes Robert M. O'Neil.

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