(Associated Press ) By Joe Mandak — PITTSBURGH — The firm that owns the SAT college entrance exam is boosting security worldwide following test-stealing and other cheating in recent years. The College Board said it’s reducing the number of international testing dates from six per year to four for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. […]
Read More »By Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed.). Eight elite private high schools in the Washington area this morning announced that they are dropping out of the Advanced Placement program. In a joint statement, they said that they were responding to “the diminished utility of AP courses and the desirability of developing our own advanced courses that […]
Read More »By Leslie Postal (Orlando Sentinel). Both ACT and SAT scores for Florida’s class of 2017 were released recently, with the SAT once again the more popular college admissions exam in the Sunshine State. More than 147,000 students, or 83 percent of the seniors who graduated last spring, took the SAT while about 129,300, or 73 […]
Read More »By John McCrank (Reuters) – ACT Inc, the maker of the United States’ most popular college entrance exam, said on Thursday it has canceled the ACT exam scheduled for Saturday at some of its international test centers due to a breach of the test materials. ACT, which has been the target of widespread cheating at […]
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