Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. In December 2023, the College ...

Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...

Both Houston and Cypress-Fairbanks ISDs saw declines of less than five points from 2023 to 2024. HISD, which had an average SAT score of 924, ranked 29 out of 47 districts in the region. Meanwhile, ...

The SAT and ACT have long been attacked as biased and open to manipulation, and the pandemic has helped weaken their influence. But if we understand what the tests measure, they have some value.

The Perfect Score is a Teen Vogue series on standardized testing in the United States. In this op-ed, Mariana Viera explores the history of the SAT and its ties to racism, classism, and nativism. “The ...

Last week, the College Board announced a long-overdue innovation: It will try to put students’ SAT scores in context by providing colleges with an adversity measure that summarizes—on a scale of one ...

Although the essay portion of the SAT became optional in 2016, many students still chose to write it to demonstrate strong or improved writing skills to prospective colleges. In June 2021, the College ...

The number of students taking the SAT college admissions test at least once is growing back to pre-pandemic figures—even as some colleges and universities made the test optional at the onset of the ...

Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. Credit...Photo Illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By David Leonhardt David ...

No more filling in bubbles or waiting for proctors to collect the exam sheets: The SAT is now digital, along with some other modifications. Students taking the test internationally were the first ...

Has anyone there ever heard the myth that you get 200 points on the SAT just for spelling your name correctly? I remember someone in high school trying to claim that the reason they only got a 900 on ...

As a student at Kaiser High School in Fontana two years ago, Melissa Morfin-Acevedo bombed her SAT test, scoring in the bottom third percentile nationally. The daughter of an immigrant single mother ...