Smarter Balanced Looks to Partner With SAT or ACT on Hybrid Test

(Edweek) By Liana Loewus.    With states increasingly having walked away from the common-core-aligned tests developed by two federally funded consortia—especially at the high school level—one of those assessment groups is looking to hit the refresh button with a new type of test: one that is useful for both federal accountability and college admissions. The Smarter Balanced […]

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How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students

(New York Times)  by Susan Dynarsky | …Michigan began requiring public school juniors to take the ACT in 2007, and the share of high school graduates taking a college entrance exam rose immediately to nearly 99 percent from 54 percent. That growth was even sharper among low-income students; only 35 percent had been taking the […]

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