An organization that advocates for limited application of standardized assessments announced that over 1,900 colleges are no longer mandating SAT or ACT scores to be admitted to college in the Fall 2023 semester. FairTest claimed…

An organization that advocates for limited application of standardized assessments announced that over 1,900 colleges are no longer mandating SAT or ACT scores to be admitted to college in the Fall 2023 semester. FairTest claimed…
The College Board, which administers college preparation classes in high schools, announced that it will expand its African American Studies Advanced Placement (AP) course to at least 200 high schools in the 2023-2024 school year….
The College Board, which runs the SAT college entrance exams, is implementing and expanding its “adversity score” to help increase college campus diversity.
The Wall Street Journal (beware of the paywall) had a piece blasting the politicization of the annual college entrance exams called the SAT.
A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater…
The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of Common Core. Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and…
A great op-ed by Kristen Blair in the Carolina Journal on the new SAT test and how it’s dumbed down. Photo by USDAgov
As we noted in a previous post, when Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the United States to shun SAT scores as an admissions requirement, the school’s president waxed rhapsodic about…
Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as an admissions requirement. The college’s president, Jonathan Last, waxed rhapsodic about the results of the…
Disturbing news as SAT scores are being released.