The College Board is engaging in “blatant hypocrisy” by providing SAT scores to colleges that disregard the board’s own guidelines, which caution against setting minimum score requirements, charged ...

BOSTON – The nonprofit College Board, which owns the SAT college entrance exam, is demanding that its chief critic remove from its Web site data showing that minority and poor students scored lower ...

The image of high school juniors and seniors sweating their SAT results may be increasingly dated. A new report from FairTest, a national organization that advocates for the elimination of college ...

The new FairTest Examine r is out, and full of the usual news and commentary (and the announcement of a new co-director named, of all things, Earle M. Test). I kid you not. But there’s another outfit ...

The new academic article by researchers at the University of Minnesota further confirms the College Board’s long-held position that the SAT is a fair and valid predictor of first-year college success ...

This week, universities across the country began admitting their second classes of students for which standardized tests were not required. On Thursday, Havard accepted 740 students for early ...

More than 1,800 U.S. colleges and universities are now employing either ACT/SAT-optional or test-blind/score-free admission policies. As the college application process picks up steam for the upcoming ...

Tongues wagged in the education world when FairTest, the Cambridge, Mass.-based watchdog of the testing industry, disclosed last month that it had only enough money to operate through 2006. At its ...

BOSTON (AP) -- A group of more than 130 Massachusetts professors and researchers has sent a letter to state education officials urging them to stop relying on standardized test scores in judging ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Within the past month, more colleges have decided to adopt a test-optional admissions policy whereby undergraduate applicants will ...

This year's high school juniors may finally do what they've often dreamed: kiss their college prep books goodbye.An increasing number of universities are dropping the SAT and ACT requirement for fall ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. At least 1,400 four-year colleges will not require the SAT or ACT next year, according to FairTest ...