Archive for the ‘ K-12 ’ Category

Inequality in College Admissions

Scandals of Higher Education An article in the New York Review of Books and the book list that goes with it made me want to erase the admissions policies, guidelines, etc. at every institution of higher learning I could find so we can all just start over. If college applicants did not have to submit [ READ MORE ]

Getting Into College Without Taking the SAT

List of SAT / ACT Optional 4-Year Universities Fair Test keeps a list of schools that have dispensed with the standardized testing requirement. Currently, that list includes 734 schools, 28 of which are ranked in the top 100 liberal arts colleges in America by U.S. News and World Report. Notable colleges on the list include: [ READ MORE ]

College Admissions–Looking Good Only On Paper

There’s an article in the NY Times about the increasing numbers of small liberal arts colleges dropping the SAT from their admissions requirements: Students’ Paths To Small Colleges Can Bypass SAT. Call it what you will (I like to call it WASP Guilt), but it’s moving me to confess: in high school I was an [ READ MORE ]

College Board Reveals SAT Reporting Errors Due to Excessive Moisture on Answer Sheets

Can you blame students for sweating a little when they’re taking this thing? The College Board (SAT test administrators) hired a consulting company to look into the matter, but didn’t release the report until a New York state senator threatened to subpoena executives from the non-profit group. An article on Salon says that “The problems [ READ MORE ]