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  • August 2008

    • Test Prep Firm Accidentally Publishes Student Data

      New York Times  |  Aug 19, 08 12:09 PM CDT

      Test Prep Firm Accidentally Publishes Student Data

      (Newser) - An error in the Princeton Review’s website left personal information and standardized test scores for tens of thousands of students exposed on the internet for 7 weeks, the New York Times reports after a rival test-prep firm informed the newspaper. Data on 34,000 students from Sarasota, Fla., and another 74,000 in Fairfax County, Va., were available before the company closed it off. More »

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      Florida  • SAT  • tests  • college preparation  • Princeton Review  • security breach

    • PSAT Will Expand College Testing Stress to Jr. High

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 8, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      PSAT Will Expand College Testing Stress to Jr. High

      (Newser) - The College Board will start offering the PSAT to eighth-graders in 2010, the LA Times reports. Students normally take the exam, a precursor of the SAT, in 10th or 11th grade, but kids have been signing up earlier in recent years. Critics charge that the College Board is pushing the college prep schedule forward to make more profit. More »

  • July 2008

    • SAT, ACT Cheats Get Off Easy

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 15, 08 10:44 AM CDT

      SAT, ACT Cheats Get Off Easy

      (Newser) - College hopefuls caught cheating on their ACT or SAT exams are likely to face few consequences, the Los Angeles Times reports, due to policies under which the administering agencies simply cancel suspicious scores on the college-admission exams. High schools and colleges are kept in the dark about potential wrongdoing, and students are generally allowed to retake the exams. More »

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      college admissions  • cheating  • SAT  • test score  • college applications  • exam

  • June 2008

    • Ruling Lets Students Pick Top SAT Score

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 21, 08 3:01 PM CDT

      Ruling Lets Students Pick Top SAT Score

      (Newser) - High school students can soon pick which of their SAT scores are sent to colleges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Starting with the class of 2010, the College Board, which administers the exam, will reverse its policy of sending all results—good, bad, or indifferent. A spokesman said the change would give students more control and less stress. More »

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      college admissions  • SAT  • high school students  • college board  • exam

  • April 2008

    • OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!

      Associated Press  |  Apr 24, 08 9:07 PM CDT

      OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!

      (Newser) - Two-thirds of American teens aren’t keeping their LOLs to themselves: They're turning in papers and lab reports with abbreviations, dropped punctuation, and other informalities inherent to Internet and text-message vocabularies, the AP reports. Kids who write blogs and have Facebook pages are more likely to slip from formality in their schoolwork, a new survey shows—but OMG! grown-ups aren’t that upset about it. More »

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      Facebook  • text messaging  • youth  • SAT

    • Road to Ivy Paved With Rejection Letters

      Austin American-Statesman  |  Apr 19, 08 3:31 PM CDT

      Road to Ivy Paved With Rejection Letters

      (Newser) - The dreaded thin letter from college admissions offices is cluttering mailboxes in record numbers this year, but you'd think the elite of the elite would be safe. Not so, reports the Austin American-Statesman , which talks to local top students, including one who capped his impressive high school record with perfect scores on his SAT and ACT but failed to sway Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and others. More »

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