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How Do You Transition a Career to Social Impact?

Neil Parmar | Posted 05.16.2013 | Impact
Neil Parmar

Plenty of people talk about wanting to transition into a career that packs more social impact. But, how, exactly do you go about making such a switch?

Credit for MOOCs

Jonathan Haber | Posted 04.19.2013 | College
Jonathan Haber

One of the hot topics regarding MOOCs and other forms of online learning (massive or small, free or otherwise) is whether or not taking such courses should count for actual high school or college credit.

Save Our Teenagers: Ditch the SAT Reasoning Test

Dr. Michele Hernandez | Posted 03.29.2013 | College
Dr. Michele Hernandez

It would allow students more TIME to pursue their academic passions, get a job, make an impact on their communities, write for their school newspapers, do high level research, and read for pleasure. The irony, of course, is these are exactly the attributes top colleges profess to want from their applicants.

The College Board Fails the Test

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.03.2013 | College
Steve Nelson

If the College Board ever intended to create equity in college admission, its effect has been the opposite. It advantages the already advantaged. The disproportionate weight given to SAT scores in admission further magnifies the many advantages already enjoyed by privileged kids.

Ed Today: School Safety Addressed At House Education Committee Hearing; Arne Duncan's Sequestration Hype

Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics
Joy Resmovits

House Education Panel On School Safety On Wednesday, members of the House Education & Workforce Committee mulled over ways to keep schools safe in light of the horrific Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting, reports Politics K-12. Witnesses told the committee that "school resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies," the blog reports. But there was next to no conversation about gun control. Hmmm.

Joy Resmovits

SAT Creators Make Civil Rights Hire

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.27.2013 | Politics

The College Board, the organization best known for bringing you the SATs and Advanced Placement exams, is trying to branch out -- into civil rights wo...

Joy Resmovits

Are We Spending Too Little On Standardized Tests?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.29.2012 | Home

Matt Chingos has an idea that will likely roil the scores of parents and teachers who think the U.S. tests its students too much: we might actually sp...

Counselor College Training, College Board, and the Circle of Huh

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 01.06.2013 | Home
Patrick O'Connor

"True North: Charting the Course to College and Career Readiness" highlights College Board's most recent survey of school counselors and administrators, where both groups recognize counselors can be effective change agents in the college and work plans of students.

SAT Postponed Throughout New York City, Other Parts Of East Coast Affected By Hurricane Sandy

Posted 11.01.2012 | Home

As New York City continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, the SAT scheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 3 has been postponed for all students who were s...

The Most Expensive States to Raise Children

The Fiscal Times | Steve Yoder | Posted 11.01.2012 | Home

The Fiscal Times: When it comes to children, more Americans are just saying ā€œno.ā€ In 2011, the U.S. fertility rate fell to the lowest rate ever...

SAT Scores Edge Down, ACT Now More Popular Exam

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 11.24.2012 | Home

-- Average national scores on two of the three sections of the SAT college entrance exam edged down for the high school class of 2012, which was the ...

Joy Resmovits

What's That Stack Of Money Doing Near The Stock Exchange?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- While cash and Wall Street go hand-in-hand, the College Board is hoping that a 6-foot-tall display of (fake) hundred-dollar bills placed n...

The College Board Democratizes Access to Public Education

Kathryn Juric | Posted 08.27.2012 | Home
Kathryn Juric

ETS and the College Board do not take lightly the decision to invalidate test scores, because we understand and hear firsthand the inconvenience and frustration such decisions cause students and their families.

As School Ends, No Summer Tests, a Call for More Counselor Training, and Reaching the Finish Line

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 08.22.2012 | Detroit
Patrick O'Connor

Now that it's the end of June, it's time to tidy up a few odds and ends from recent columns before we look ahead to the next school year.

College Board Sets Up 857 Desks On National Mall To Get Politicians Talking About Education

AP | SARAH PARNASS | Posted 08.19.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON — While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Boa...

College Board Needs to Return to Its Mission of Helping Students

Dan Edmonds | Posted 08.14.2012 | College
Dan Edmonds

In two recent cases of disregard for SAT test takers, College Board has shown a remarkable tone-deafness to the students who, in principle, they exist to serve.

SAT, UCal Decisions Rock College Admissions

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 08.05.2012 | Home
Patrick O'Connor

Stories from two coasts raised the ire, eyebrows, and I-can't-believe-its of counselors, parents and students everywhere, as news about college costs and college tests sent members of the high school Class of 2013 running into the summer sun.

What Would the Founders Say About Common Core?

Alan Singer | Posted 08.01.2012 | Home
Alan Singer

I don't think Jim Stergios and I would agree on very much. But his recent blog questioning the common core standards and challenging the credibility of the people who are promoting it was brilliant and funny at the same time.

Student Loans: The Real Numbers to Worry About

Ellen Schloemer | Posted 07.25.2012 | Home
Ellen Schloemer

News stories about student loan debt have suddenly become as numerous as stories on the U.S. economic recovery. For some really scary statistics, check out a recent College Board study on for-profit colleges.

An Update on the State of Training in College Counseling

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 07.22.2012 | Detroit
Patrick O'Connor

Since 1995, The Education Trust has supported the work of transforming the school counseling profession to a new vision focused on closing achievement and opportunity gaps.

Damn You, College Board!

Valerie Frankel | Posted 07.17.2012 | College
Valerie Frankel

It's been widely reported that the SAT administered at my daughter's school in Brooklyn on May 5, 2012, has been invalidated by the College Board. It was the only site, worldwide, found to be in violation of the College Board's standards.

AP Exams Surge As Standard For High School Rigor

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 08.21.2012 | Home

-- Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not an...

Calculator Shopping, the Night Before the SAT

J.D. Rothman | Posted 07.05.2012 | Parents
J.D. Rothman

What time does Staples close, in case your child can't locate his TI-183 calculator the night before the SAT exam? What is the ACT?

Abandon "Students of Color" Category

Richard Whitmire | Posted 07.03.2012 | Home
Richard Whitmire

We need to stop lumping black and Hispanic students together -- both in terms of how we measure progress and in terms of policy. The groups have different educational needs.

In Push For More College Grads, 'Very Profitable Nonprofit' Cashes In

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 08.29.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The national push to increase the number of Americans with college degrees is enriching at...