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(Article by Ivan Pentchoukov republished from TheEpochTimes.com) The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist. Under the settlement, the university, which enrolls some 225,000 undergraduate students, said it won’t consider SAT or ACT scores sent along with admissions applications until 2025. The university further stated that it had no current plan to consider the scores after 2025. The s...

Big Changes to the SAT Advanced Placement tests will take prominence as the college entrance exam phases out subject tests and the optional essay. Jan. 20, 2021 This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The coronavirus pandemic is hastening sweeping changes to the SAT college entrance exam. The College Board, which produces the test, said that to reduce ...

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Paying $35,000 to bribe a proctor and have someone else take her son, jacks, a.c.t. test. jack buckingham says he was totally unaware of the scheme, and has publicly apologized for gaining an advantage over other deserving applicants. >> all right, linsey davis with us live tonight from boston. shes been covering this story from the start. and linsey, there are other families we know who are deciding whether to cooperate with prosecutors? >> reporter: thats right, david. abc news has learned tha...

Blending brush. >> reporter: the social media influencer who is often seen promoting products from her dorm room, today losing the support of sephora, which says theyre ending their partnership immediately. and tonight, were hearing for the first time from a student directly impacted by that scheme. high school senior jack buckingham telling "the hollywood reporter," "i know there are millions of kids out there, both wealthy and less fortunate, who grind their -- off, just to have a shot at the ...

Star. when he actually got to college and some advisor asked him about that, said, oh, you run track. the guy said no, i dont. so it seems like at least that child did not know what his parents were doing. is it clear with most of the kids, did some of them know? did some of them not know? >> reporter: well, no kids have been charged so far. one kid at least we know definitely did know because we were told by the u.s. attorney today that that girl was actually on a conference call with her paren...

She asked the scammers to also e-mail her a dummy fake a.c.t. test so that her son could take that test at home and he would be none the wiser. he would think that the great score was his. anderson, listen, the other thing that authorities are keen to point out here, they say this is an ongoing investigation and there will likely be more arrests. now, singer, the guy who allegedly master minded this whole thing in transcripts of phone calls he made to parents, he was boasting of getting over 700...

Child did not know what his parents were doing. is it clear with most of the kids, did some of them know? did some of them not know? >> reporter: well, no kids have been charged so far. one kid at least we know definitely did know because we were told by the u.s. attorney today that that girl was actually on a conference call with her parent and these alleged scam artists figuring out how they were going to do it. there was one other case that was heard here today which speaks to this point. a w...

West coast and he paid at least 50 grand to have somebody take the act test for his child. on the perpetrators were explaining the scheme to him he laughed. he said, i love it. this is a gentle man, a capitalist and he holds himself out as a leading voice in silicon valley of ethical investing. he and bono just raised about $2 billion. they are only going to invest in ethical companies. give me a break! the hypocrisy is breathtaking. the prosecutors, the one you just had on talking about possibi...

Disability so they get unlimited time in the tests. >> dana: that was another part of the scam. they would label a student as having a learning disability and then steer them to these centers where the proctor was a friend of singer and would accept the bribe and either have somebody take the test for them. for example, parents were saying i need a 34 on my childs act test and imaginically, guess what, they got a 35. >> felicity huffman wondered what if they jump so much that people get suspicio...