The Atlantic

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MIT brings back a test that, despite its reputation, helps low-income students in an inequitable society.

The Atlantic

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Despite colleges dropping their testing requirements because of the coronavirus, students continue to sign up for the exams, believing that a score is the key to admission.

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - What Felicity Huffman now calls the worst decision of her life came to a head at 6 a.m. March 12, when six federal agents showed up at the door of her Hollywood Hills home, guns drawn, to march the actress, in handcuffs, out of the real

Futurity

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A second crack at the SAT leads to higher scores, research finds. Eliminating disparities in retake rates could close up to 10% of the income-based gap and up to 7% of the race-based gap in four-year college enrollment rates of high school graduates,

Los Angeles Times

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He was so brilliant, prosecutors said, you could pick the score you wanted on the SAT or ACT, and he would hit it. Mark Riddell, a 36-year-old Harvard graduate who is accused of doctoring dozens of college entrance exams for the children of wealthy f

The Atlantic

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Updated at 12:44 p.m. ET on March 13, 2019. The actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among 50 people—including 33 wealthy parents, college-prep executives, a college administrator, two ACT/SAT administrators, and nine college coaches—charged

Chicago Tribune

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The nonprofit that administers the SAT test to 2 million students each year has axed its nascent "adversity score," a clumsy attempt to distill the possible socioeconomic hardships and challenges of a student's background into a single neat and tidy

The Christian Science Monitor

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A new school year is full of possibility. In some cases, that can mean overcoming pernicious stereotypes about students' limitations.

Los Angeles Times

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In another blow to the future of standardized testing for University of California admissions, a faculty group has recommended nixing the use of an alternative assessment to replace the SAT in a new report to UC leaders. The UC Board of Regents, in a

NPR

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The College Board, the organization behind the test, also announced that the exam will shrink from three hours to two, and students will be able to use a calculator for the math section.

Los Angeles Times

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The University of California is rightly concerned about making its student application process as equitable as possible, yet it’s clinging to part of the application that clearly benefits wealthy students. Not the SAT. No, UC decided months ago to do

Manhattan Institute

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The College Board plans to introduce a new “adversity score” as a backdoor to racial quotas in college admissions.

Los Angeles Times

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A couple who splits their time between New York City and Colorado were sentenced Tuesday to one month in prison each for conspiring to fix their daughter's college entrance exams, a scam they decided was worth the $125,000 cost if it boosted her pros

NPR

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For the first time since the 1970s, the SAT will be offered in the summer. As students get ready to sit for the test this Saturday, we ask: What does this new date mean for students?

The Christian Science Monitor

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A record number of schools are dropping the SAT/ACT requirement in admissions, marking a significant shift in how they gauge the value of students.

The Atlantic

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Applying to schools has become an endless chore—one that teaches students nothing about what really matters in higher education.

Futurity

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As the number of cases of COVID-19 multiplies and the duration of school closures increases, school districts are struggling with the feasibility of providing students with online learning opportunities, researchers say. In the rush to plan for onlin

Woman's Weekly

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Don’t interrupt or criticise any child, keep the home calm, speak slowly, and encourage taking turns and listening within the family. Encourage what seems to help your child’s fluency – chat about what you’re doing together, playing, walking to schoo

The Atlantic

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Faced with the messy realities of entrenched privilege, the College Board is trying to find a quantitative solution.

The Christian Science Monitor

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A new scoring metric by the College Board will help the admission of more disadvantaged applicants by highlighting those who defy their social or economic hardships.

NPR

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More than a dozen colleges have dropped testing requirements for admission, with one school citing "unprecedented obstacles and disruptions" due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Los Angeles Times

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When the University of California threatened to drop the SAT as a college entrance requirement more than 15 years ago, the College Board eliminated the analogy questions and introduced a new essay portion. The changes helped keep the test in business

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - The University of California came under new pressure Tuesday to eliminate the SAT and ACT as an admission requirement, when several groups threatened a lawsuit alleging that the tests violate state civil rights laws by unlawfully discri

NPR

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"Stories like this are why we continue to see backlash to disability rights laws," one expert said.

Los Angeles Times

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Speaking as someone who suffered through the rigors and travails of the college admissions process - for myself and my two children - I don't have any difficulty finding the answer to the burning question of what should happen to the kids who got int

Manhattan Institute

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Activists and the press are angry as Trump administration revokes Obama’s admissions guidance to colleges and universities.

The Atlantic

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The CEO and vice president explain what they’re hoping to accomplish by factoring adversity into the standardized test.

Los Angeles Times

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No child's first choice of a Christmas present would be "1001 SAT Words" and underwear. But that's what I got the year I was 10. My parents came to the U.S. as Korean War refugees, and the gifts represented what they considered most important: educat

The Christian Science Monitor

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How should college admissions be determined? A recent survey of U.S. admissions officers sheds light on what they say matters most.

The Atlantic

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Just because some people allegedly cheated the system doesn’t mean the system is defensible.