Archive: Turf battle developing over who can test California’s 11th-graders

(Edsource) By John Fensterwald. California is quickly becoming a national battleground over the franchise for testing high school juniors. The College Board, producer of the SAT college admissions test, wants in, while state officials, defenders of the state’s current test provider, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, have a new strategy to keep the SAT and […]

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Californian acceptance rate drops in fall 2017 UC admission data

(Daily Californian) by Audrey McNamara. The University of California released fall 2017 admission data today. The data reflects a 1.7 percent drop in California resident admission. Due to last year’s abnormally large in-state class — adding an additional 7,500 in-state students, the university is still on track to meet its goal of adding 10,000 California students by […]

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