Will the SAT be shoved into the proverbial locker?
The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) has provided untold angst to high schoolers nationwide since 1926 – but it’s reign of terror may be coming to an end. The SAT has been widely used in the United States for college admissions to determine a student’s readiness to move to the next level in education. But now it’s being tested by the new kid in town: the Classic Learning Test (CLT), an upstart competitor to the College Board’s traditional benchmarking tool and admissions exam.
The promotion of the CLT has the College Board folks squirming and employing lobbyists to bully state legislators into voting against new test that one Tennessee lawmaker had proposed. The old guard, somewhat resistant to change, sent a warning via supplicant to Republican Rep. William…
