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 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 than white ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than eight out of every 10 colleges and universities that award bachelor’s degrees no longer require or do not consider standardized tests in admissions decisions, according to a national survey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently wrote about a new book by Harvard University professor Daniel Koretz, “The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better,” which details exactly what the title suggests: how the ...