Alabama board votes to end contract with ACT Aspire

(AL.com)   Teachers in Alabama’s schools will implement new testing next year for students in public schools. After only four years of testing students, but following months of discussion of concerns with the ACT Aspire, the Alabama state board of education voted unanimously on Wednesday to ditch the test. State superintendent Michael Sentance told the […]

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How the SAT and PSAT collect personal data on students — and what the College Board does with it

(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. […]

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National Merit Semifinalist cut scores for the class of 2017 who took the PSAT in October 2015

(Compass Prep) By Adam Ingersoll ||  .   We have compiled all 50 states’ PSAT cutoff scores required for seniors to proceed in the National Merit Scholarship program. While the general narrative around new SAT scores has been score inflation, with a boost of around 80 points through much of the distribution compared to old SAT […]

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