College Board Ends Plan for ‘Rich Kids SAT’
Inside Higher Education
June 6, 2012 – 3:00am
The College Board, facing widespread criticism, on Tuesday announced that it was abandoning plans to test out an August administration of the SAT this year. Many high school students want a summer option for taking the SAT, but many college and high school officials were upset by the College Board’s plan to try out the idea with a summer program of the National Society for the Gifted and Talented — a program whose $4,500 price tag led many educators to call the pilot a “rich kids SAT.”…
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