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Students

Coming Soon: Cash for College Students’ Good Grades

For the past several years economists and educators have been studying the impact of incentives — monetary and other valuable gifts — on student performance. Now a recently launched Web site, GradeFund, takes the idea of incentives and aims to utilize them as a practical solution for paying for college.

January 29, 2009

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College Board Unveils Controversial New Test for Middle-school Students

The College Board on Wednesday unveiled a new test for middle-school students to provide school districts and educators information on their students’ readiness for college. But critics say this test is unnecessary and will not make higher education accessible to more students.

October 21, 2008

Leadership & Policy

College Board Reports Most Diverse Class of SAT Test-takers on Record

A record-number of students took the SAT this year, and the increase reflects on this year’s average scores, which showed no improvement over last year and were the lowest in nearly a decade.

August 26, 2008

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ACT Scores Down, But More Students College-ready

Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.

August 13, 2008

Leadership & Policy

The College Board Says SAT Writing Section Is More Predictive of College Success Than High School GPA for Minorities

The writing portion of the SAT, added three years ago, is the best predictor of college performance for incoming college freshmen, according to a new report released by the College Board, owner of the SAT.

June 17, 2008

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In Brief: South African Dorm in Racist Video Site For New Diversity Center

South African university dorm involved in racist video to become diversity institute; Wake Forest drops SAT requirement; and a professor whose wife died in Virginia Tech shootings to head new peace center.

May 28, 2008

Students

UC System Considers Dropping SAT Subject Test Requirement

Facing pressure from an influential faculty group, the University of California system is considering dropping subject tests of the Scholastic Aptitude Test as a requirement for admission into its nine universities.

March 18, 2008

Latinx

Transformations Through

In a day when top radio show hosts hurl sexist and racist remarks at women college athletes and White college students don Afro wigs and gold teeth at parties, it is clear that many are in need of diversity training.

January 23, 2008

Students

Encouraging The Discouraged

An HSI, Heritage University serves a population that most other institutions have essentially written off as nothing more than farm laborers and service workers.

January 23, 2008

Latinx

Hispanic Educational-Reform Group Offers Data on Learning Crisis

The Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, based in Washington, D.C., compiled the following data on what it calls the “Crisis in Latino Education.”

January 16, 2008

Faculty & Staff

ACT Inc. Board, CEO Paid Higher Than Most Nonprofits

DES MOINES, Iowa The Iowa City-based nonprofit organization that develops ACT college entrance tests pays its board and its top executive more than almost all other nonprofit organizations in the United States.

November 11, 2007

Students

New Test Prep Services Cater to Minority Students

More minority students (40 percent of all test-takers nationally) took the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 2007 than ever.

October 16, 2007