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Georgia public universities will once again start requiring standardized test scores for enrollment in 2022.

With the majority of AP instruction happening remotely in and near Chicago, some students feel at a disadvantage.

‘Why Stanford Should Clone Itself’ David L. Kirp, a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, begins an essay last month in The New York Times with the evidence that the status quo is unfair. "A 2017 study showed that at 38 colleges, including five in the Ivy League, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent. These hyper-rich youths are a jaw-dropping 77 times as likely to attend an Ivy League college a...

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Amid pandemic, more Maine universities move away from SAT and ACT Dropping requirements for standardized tests by college applicants is a growing trend nationally that has been accelerated by the coronavirus. Share Nicholas Miles, 19, is a freshman at the University of New England in Biddeford, where he’s studying medical biology. He opted not to include his SAT scores with his application to UNE and is among the first classes to be admitted under a test-optional policy at the school. Gregor...

Past studies have revealed similar findings (although the finding on women is new), but the studys release comes at a time when many colleges are anxious for such research. Bennett, who is finishing his doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University, did not receive any outside funding for the work. Bennett said in an interview that he saw one difference between the colleges he studied and the colleges that have just admitted their first class of test-optional students: the time they prepared for the...

In 2005, the College of the Holy Cross became one of the first colleges in the country to make a bold change in its admissions process. The Worcester school no longer required applicants to submit what had long been a central component of preparing for college: standardized tests such as the SAT. A decade and a half later, Holy Cross is joined by just about every one of its Central Massachusetts peers, and higher education admissions have been transformed.  Colleges generally no longer see the...

This year, Metro Nashville Public Schools will administer tests in-person between April 21 and May 14, since the state extended the time period districts can administer tests this spring from six to nine weeks.  "The fact that the state has made zero accommodations for virtual testing for this test — knowing for months that this test would be offered and that tens of thousands of children are still virtual — is simply insane," Nicole Provonchee, parent of two elementary students in Nas...

This year, Metro Nashville Public Schools will administer tests in-person between April 21 and May 14, since the state extended the time period districts can administer tests this spring from six to nine weeks.  "The fact that the state has made zero accommodations for virtual testing for this test — knowing for months that this test would be offered and that tens of thousands of children are still virtual — is simply insane," Nicole Provonchee, parent of two elementary students in Nas...