Dozens of far-left organizations are demanding the resignation of College Board CEO David Coleman following the organization modifying its AP African American Studies course after the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) rejected it as is, due to the inclusion of woke topics and blatantly leftist talking points.
An NCAA task force backed the end to standardized test score requirements for high school students preparing to play Division I or II sports.
The College Board announced on Tuesday that it will eliminate the optional essay from the SAT, as well as discontinuing subject tests, to “reduce demands on students.” The organization stated: “As students and colleges adapt to new realities and changes to the college admissions process, College Board is making sure our programs adapt with them.”
An extensive report from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) released Thursday finds the College Board is deeply connected to a Chinese agency that runs Confucius Institutes in several academic establishments in America.
The College Board, the company behind the SAT exam, reportedly has established partnerships with China’s Communist government. The College Board, like many universities and colleges in the United States, has maintained a relationship with the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-backed organization that aims to increase China’s influence on education around the globe.
The College Board announced it would be dropping its controversial “adversity score” on the SAT college entrance exam that informed schools of the socio-economic background of students taking the test.
Students who take the SAT college entrance exam will now be assigned an “adversity score” to inform schools of their social and economic background, including the crime rate in their neighborhoods and the poverty levels of their high schools, says the College Board.
Parents raised concerns that an SAT test question asked students to write an essay on an excerpt from an op-ed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
College Board, which owns the Advanced Placement (AP) tests, wants to eliminate thousands of years of world history from the AP World History test — and educators are not happy.
“It’s just a particularly clear example of the left-liberal bias that pervades nearly all of the College Board’s AP U.S. History course material, from the Trump administration right back through the colonial period,” he asserts. “Maybe this incident will wake parents up to the need for a real alternative to the College Board’s biased curriculum.”
Jon Boeckenstedt, the Associate Vice President for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University, took to Twitter to say, “Did you try to turn a national tragedy into a promotional opportunity? I’ve seldom seen something in poorer taste.”
Progressive billionaire George Soros via his Open Society Foundation is listed as a “funding partner” of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE).
It takes an average of 12 years for the full value of a college degree to kick in, according to a report from the College Board.
As Reuters observes, when Coleman’s College Board set out to redesign the SAT to align it with Common Core, the new exam was supposed to reflect more “real world applications” than the test’s prior versions.
As America looks back on the September 11 terrorist attack that changed the nation, the direction of education in the country seems on track to ensure that U.S. students either forget that day entirely or view it as a result of America’s own failure to be open and accepting of other cultures.
Federal agents seized computers and other materials from Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board. Alfaro had contacted government officials from seven states, making accusations his former employer lied about its tests in bids for state contracts.
Hundreds of exam questions from the College Board’s redesigned SAT college entrance exam have been leaked to Reuters, the news wire reports.
The new curriculum for the Advanced Placement European History test hides the role of Christianity in European history, and also hides Islam’s violent conquests in Europe and its tradition of jihad.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Monday the number of the state’s high school students taking at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course more than doubled over the past decade. In fact, the percentage of Texas students participating in the program outpaced the national average.
Stanley Kurtz believes the battle over AP U.S. History is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards.
“Next year the College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make comparisons with past results impossible, and allow Common Core proponents to argue ‘these are different and better tests, so don’t pay attention to past results,'” Wurman states. “We are lucky that this year’s SAT has not changed yet, so the decline is clearly visible and cannot be hidden or denied.” The College Board president is David Coleman, the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards.
Last week, Danniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, cited recent changes the College Board made to the Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework as a “victory” for conservatives. Experts on the framework, however, think that is quite a stretch.
The Georgia House Rules Committee has failed to advance a highly popular resolution that would have the state’s congressional delegation urge a competitive market for Advanced Placement tests, the federal subsidies for which go entirely to the College Board.
