I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel a camel being a horse built by committee.
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There's clearly something wrong with the management at the College Board and Pearson.
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What this represents is a dissatisfaction or worse with the changes in the SAT.
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The larger issue here is that the nation has put its trust in an unaccountable testing industry. It's yet another one of those cases in which the testing industry's screw-up could significantly harm people's education and their lives.
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The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.
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