The Ivy League’s Testing Turnaround Proves the SAT Is Still an Engine for Upward Mobility

Virginia and Ohio join effort to design 3-year bachelor’s degrees

While some say such degrees could increase college affordability, two groups blasted them as “stripped-down curriculum that prioritizes speed.”

The Higher Education Revolution We Need to Have

Gregg Gonsalves Our universities are selling us out. If we want that to change, we have to change the way they’re run. The post The Higher Education Revolution We Need to Have appeared first on The Nation.

Berkeley Math Professor: Bring Back the SAT

Berkeley Math Professor: Bring Back the SAT

Chabria: UC could go back to using the SAT and ACT for admissions. Here's why that doesn't add up

UC is not Harvard, and was never meant to embody that type of self-perpetuating exclusivity disguised as a meritocracy.

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In a recent Flypaper post, Dale Chu argues that the promise of a single assessment system doing multiple things well is “too good to be true.” He says that through-year assessments (TYA)—tests administered periodically throughout the school year that culminate in a summative score—are trying to do too much. But his critique relies on theoretical exaggerations, ignores the glaring failures of our current testing landscape, and dismisses the very real potential of through-year assessments to Read More