Italian Language Foundation And The College Board Combine Efforts To Expand Advanced Placement Opportunities ...

PRNewswire (press release) - 10 Sep 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Italian Language Foundation (ILF) is pleased with LaGuardia High School's recent decision to continue offering AP Italian in 2020, following an initial decision to discontinue the course. The College Board's new ...

College Board loses portions of Liberty HS students' AP exams

KIRO Seattle - 14 Sep 2019
The College Board lost portions of Advanced Placement exams taken by Liberty High School students, according to Issaquah School District 411.

A new book argues the College Board has failed to reduce inequity

Chalkbeat Colorado - 10 Sep 2019
The book catalogs instances where the College Board spun, obscured, or downplayed unfavorable research findings.

Harvard Continues With College Board's 'Adversity Score' Following Criticisms and Changes to the Program | News

Harvard Crimson - 13 Sep 2019
The Harvard College Admissions Office will continue to participate in the College Board's effort to provide colleges and universities with information about ...

College Board announces plan to include socioeconomic factors in admissions

CBS News - 27 Aug 2019
The College Board is announcing a plan to consider socioeconomic factors in the admissions process, in an attempt to ensure that every student has an equal ...

The College Board is Abandoning 'Adversity Scores'—But Not Completely

RealClearEducation - 02 Sep 2019
Three months ago the College Board provoked controversy when it announced that it would start reporting “adversity scores” to colleges. The College Board ...

The College Board Tweaked The SAT Adversity Score. Can It Undo The Damage It Caused?

Forbes - 31 Aug 2019
Since David Coleman took the helm at the College Board, its flagship product–the ubiquitous SAT, one-time queen of college entrance exams–has been the ...

Paul Tough spent the past six years studying higher education. Here are the troubling results.

Washington Post - 16 Sep 2019
Tough writes, "Mobility in the United States today depends, in large part, on what happens to individuals during a relatively brief period in late adolescence and ...

The College Board Scraps Controversial 'Adversity Score,' but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions

Daily Signal - 30 Aug 2019
One of the greatest flaws in the College Board's Adversity Score was that it tied the fate of students to their ZIP code.

College Board CEO explains decision to ditch controversial SAT 'adversity score'

Fox News - 28 Aug 2019
College board CEO, David Coleman, appeared on "America's Newsroom" Wednesday to explain the decision to do away with the "adversity score," which would ...

The college admissions process is ‘unconscionably unjust.’ Here’s one way to help change that.

Washington Post - 05 Sep 2019
Was the College Board onto something with its 'adversity score?'

College Board revises adversity score measure

Yale Daily News - 06 Sep 2019
For the past two years, Yale used a so-called adversity score calculated by the College Board to quantify students' background. The company's chief executive ...

College Board honors 34 students, 2 teachers from Colquitt County

Moultrie Observer - 10 Sep 2019
MOULTRIE, Ga. — Colquitt County was well represented when the College Board honored 34 of its students for exceptional performances in their 2018-2019 ...

Author discusses his new book on college as years that

Inside Higher Ed - 09 Sep 2019
Author discusses his new book on economic inequities and higher education. And the role of the SAT.

College Board's new tool Landscape to pave way toward fairer admissions practices

Daily Bruin - 09 Sep 2019
The College Board decided not to implement a new score that would provide context on students' backgrounds following negative feedback. The Environmental ...

Nearly 100 Issaquah high school students in limbo over lost AP scores

KING5.com - 13 Sep 2019
92 students in the Issaquah School District have not received their AP test scores.

College Board CEO: Adversity Score 'Caused a Great Deal of Confusion'

Cheddar - 29 Aug 2019
College Board is scrapping its plan to capture the socioeconomic status of college applicants with a single adversity score after the scheme was widely rejected ...

College Board's revised adversity score seeks to make admissions fairer

Daily Californian - 11 Sep 2019
The College Board has revised its Environmental Context Dashboard to create a tool to help college admissions officers consider students more fairly.

The SAT 'Adversity Score' Is Still Happening --And Colleges May Use It Against Low-Income Students

Forbes - 11 Sep 2019
The 'Environmental Context Dashboard' will still be made available to colleges this year—and the impact may not be as positive as the College Board hopes.

Catholic High School students earn AP recognition from College Board

The Advocate - 11 Sep 2019
The College Board has awarded AP Scholar designations to 74 recent alumni and students at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge in recognition of their ...

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