School district to pay students up to $300 for ACT scores
The school board in Huntsville, Alabama, has unanimously decided to pay students for achieving benchmark scores on the ACT college admissions test in an effort, members said, to get kids to take the test more seriously. WHNT News voted Tuesday night for the cash incentives, which will work this way: Benchmarks scores will be set, […]
New SAT delayed to 2016
The new version of the SAT college admissions exam that was due to be unveiled in 2015 is now being delayed until spring 2016. David Coleman, the president of the College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, sent the following e-mail to College Board members about the delay: Dear Members, I want to provide […]
Harvard College’s median grade is an A-, dean admits
Grade inflation lives at Harvard University. The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, has reported that the median grade at Harvard College is now an A- and students most frequently get A’s. The news was delivered by Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris on Tuesday. The paper reported in this story by Matthew Q. Clarida and […]
12-3-13 The Answer Sheet Key PISA test results for U.S. students
The Answer Sheet: Key PISA test results for U.S. studentsHere are highlights of the newly released 2012 scores from the Program of International Student Assessment, an exam given every three years to 15 year olds around the world in reading, math and science. In this administration of PISA, 65 countries and education systems participated. Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts each participated f