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Sarah Palin: Below-Average American

Disgrasian | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Disgrasian

An as-yet-to-be-authenticated, high school transcript of Sarah Palin's was posted on Gawker Thursday, and it's a doozy. Apparently, Sarah Palin scored an 841 out of 1600.

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The Anxiety Business

Eliot Schrefer | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: College Admissions, Education, Sat Prep, College Board Sat, College Board, College, Cost of Higher Education, SAT Testing, College Admissions Craze, Sat Tutors, Higher Education, SAT's, Living News
Eliot Schrefer

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should -- it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

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All Children Moving Ahead

Scott Page | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standardized Testing, Improving Education, Sats, Nclb, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Politics News
Scott Page

The truth is that the ability of the next generation of Americans to meet the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the day won't rest on how well they individually did on their SATs.

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Righting Wrongs

Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: James Watkins, Ian McEwan, Diane Ravitch, Office for Educational Research and Improvement, Perspectives on Education in America, Lamar Alexander, Atonement, Deb Meier, Lee Bray, SAT Decline, SAT's, Bob Huelskamp, Sandia Report, David Kearns, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

Because nearly 20 years have passed since the Sandia report, most people don't know either of the report or the suppression that followed.

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