(The Washington Post) by Valerie Strauss. If your child takes the SAT or PSAT, is his or her personal information being collected, profiled, licensed and sold? That is the question that Cheri Kiesecker, Colorado parent and member of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, asks and attempts to answer in the following important post. […]
Read More »(Edweek) By Jaclyn Zubrzycki. The number of high school students taking Advanced Placement exams continued to grow last year, and more of the test-takers were from low-income families, according to the College Board’s latest annual report on the program. In the high school graduating class of 2016, 1.1 million students took at least one Advanced […]
Read More »( Compass Prep ) By Bruce Reed — A few million high school juniors and sophomores took the PSAT last week. It gave them an early glimpse at the SAT along with some low-stakes first-hand experience with college admission testing in general. While PSAT scores will not factor into eventual admission decisions, taking the PSAT […]
Read More »NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –The College Board’s 2016 Trends in Higher Education report released today—Trends in Student Aid and Trends in College Pricing—show moderate increases in published tuition and fees ranging from 2.2% to 3.6% across all sectors between 2015-16 and 2016-17. Nonetheless, the continuing increase in average published tuition and fees at colleges and universities outpaces the growth […]
Read More »NEW YORK — Over 6.7 million test-takers completed the SAT® or a PSAT-related assessment during the 2015-16 school year, according to the 2016 SAT Suite of Assessments results released today. The SAT Suite of Assessments, which launched in 2015, includes the new SAT, PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT 10™, and PSAT 8/9™, and helps millions of students and educators […]
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