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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SAT and College Board in general is the great undiscovered scam on the American educational system.  This is an interesting idea, but I don't trust them to have thought it through or have the professional capacity to execute this in the appropriate way, if there is one.  Plus colleges already look at context.  And what will it mean for magnet program kids? 
Kahn academy has partnered with the College Board to offer free college prep and this may be the reason that the last two years of SAT scores are out of sync with previous, requiring down-curving perfectly good performance. Word has it they have made recent changes to the SAT without the proper consultation of psychometricians and the recent rounds of testing are unreliable.  The article says College Board will send the adversity score to colleges but not tell the family what score they are sending.  Is that legal?[/quote]

I meant to add that I think the Kahn academy prep is great and does a lot to level the playing field as far as making prep available to those who can't or don't want to spend on expensive private prep.  But it may be a reason that they are resorting to downcurving the test as the only way to get separation on the now dumbed-down test.  Who would take an instrument and deliberately make it less precise?? [/quote]

It's already terribly not precise.

Colleges are going away from SAT because it is so bad. This is just their feeble attempt to hold market share.

Kahn Academy prep is a joke compared to tutoring.

People who don't like the "adjustment" will be people the SAT already unfairly rewards for where they were born and to whom they were born.

I don't particularly like it or dislike it ... because the SAT is just a money making scheme that is mostly meaningless. [/quote]

Why isn't there a greater movement against the College Board in general?  They dominate education K to post-graduate and wield outsized influence on teaching and life opportunities (college decisions and beyond).  They charge astronomical amounts and make a mint on retakes, all the more with the down-curving they're doing.  Someone we know had a score drop of almost 100 points for no identifiable reason recently.  [/quote]

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