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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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Programs that cant add that time should require math content tests, the report says. Patterson also believes that blending courses that show teachers how to make lessons about math with content from the subject could also help with another issue. Not everyone believes that is enough.