The College Board under David Coleman: Bad for SAT Business
In 2009, the College Board was one of three nonprofits that were listed by name on the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). (The other two were Achieve, Inc., and ACT.)
Though not specified by name in the CCSS MOU, David Coleman was also there with his standards-writing company that later became a nonprofit, Student Achievement Partners (SAP).
In May 2012, Coleman was selected president of the College Board (effective October 2012)– where he intended to deliver curriculum through College Board tests– but that’s okay because there is a “crisis in education,” and he is here to save the day:
Mr. Coleman’s new position will involve a continued focus on college readiness. “We have a crisis in education, and over the next few years, the main thing on the College Board’s agenda is to deliver its social mission,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. “The College Board is not just about measuring and testing, but designing high-quality curriculum.”
In February 2013, Coleman announced an SAT redesign, “so that it better meets the needs of students, schools, and colleges at all levels.” However, it seems that Coleman is royally botching meeting the needs of students, schools, and colleges before his touted redesign is even launched.
Coleman needs to forget his world-domination aims of revamping the SAT as a means of controlling curriculum. Apparently he is failing at providing an SAT free of typos, preventing widespread cheating due to recycling test forms, and delivering early scores on time.
Consider June 2015: The SAT had a typo in the testing time for one of its sections of the June 06, 2015, admission– 25 minutes instead of the correct 20 minutes. College Board’s response involved refunding testing fees and offering for students to retake in The College Board under David Coleman: Bad for SAT Business | deutsch29:
