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…
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College Board announced an Advanced Placement African American studies course
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….
SAT Implements ‘Adversity Score’ to Increase Diversity
The College Board, which runs the SAT college entrance exams, is implementing and expanding its “adversity score” to help increase college campus diversity.
The SAT has become Political
The Wall Street Journal (beware of the paywall) had a piece blasting the politicization of the annual college entrance exams called the SAT.
The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle
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…
Common Core Great for Homeschooling
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…
New SAT Tests are Lame
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
Hampshire College: Diversity without Depth?
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…
A World Without SATs
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…
Only 42% of High School Grads are College Ready, says College Board
Disturbing news as SAT scores are being released.
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