How the NCAA's Test-Score Rules Look From the Ground Up

By WELCH SUGGS

High-school athletes fret about scores, but officials say the standards promote hard work

Yohance Buchanan and John Andrews are rich.

They don't look it. Not here on the barren football practice fields behind Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta's West End neighborhood. Not with one of their teammates killed in a random shooting, just hours after the third game of the season.

But these two seniors are rich in potential and opportunity. Thanks to their talent on the

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Past Coverage

NCAA Wins Stay of Ruling That Barred Use of Test Scores in Eligibility - March 31, 1999
NCAA Agrees to Loosen Its Rules for Athletes With Learning Disabilities - June 5, 1998
NCAA Finds Increase in Black and Low-Income Students Who Are Denied Eligibility - February 13, 1998
Rise in Enrollment of Academically Underprepared Athletes - April 27, 1994
Judge Refuses to Stay Ruling Barring NCAA's Use of Test Scores in Sports Eligibility - March 26, 1999

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