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 ...

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 ...

A testing-industry watchdog is once again growling at the College Board. In a letter this month to Gaston Caperton, president of the company, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing alleged that ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FairTest executive director Bob Schaffer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire ...

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 ...