(Edsurge) By Betsy Corcoran and Mary Jo Madda. Sal Khan burst on the education scene in 2010, as thousands watched his videos and Bill Gates declared Khan was his “favorite” teacher. Since then, the mission of the Khan Academy has been breathtakingly ambitious: To provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. More recently, Khan […]
Read More »April 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman called on the Department of Homeland Security to address whether foreign students are cheating on the SAT to get into American universities and illegally qualify for U.S. visas. In a letter dated Wednesday and sent to the Homeland Security department, Representative Matt Salmon cited a March report by […]
Read More »The Hindu by ROHAN GANERIWAL Here’s a thought that bears repeating about getting into Ivy League and the so-called Top-25 schools: It’s harder than you think and it takes long-term planning. There is an incredible crush of applicants for the top schools. They’re the institutions with the lowest acceptance rates. Although there are many high-quality colleges […]
Read More »(The Atlantic) By Mikhail Zinshteyn. The exam has been decried as out of touch and unfair. Now, the College Board is fighting back. The SAT has been called out of touch, instructionally irrelevant, and a contributor to the diversity gaps on college campuses because the test arguably benefits wealthier students who can afford heaps of […]
Read More »Washington Post by Nick Anderson NEW YORK — The SAT’s infamous guessing penalty is gone. Its vocabulary is less arcane, minus words like “lachrymose” and “obsequious” that students tended to memorize and then forget. Its essay is now optional. The perfect score — set in 2005 at 2400 — is reverting to the iconic standard […]
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