"Study links children's lead levels, SAT scores" (USA Today, 02/03/09)

Could a decades-long drop in the concentration of lead in children's blood help explain rising SAT scores?

"Giving Choice and Taking It Away" (Inside Higher Ed, 01/07/09)

The controversial Score Choice program announced in June is purported to help relieve student stress, but colleges are being explicitly offered options by the College Board that would limit student choice over scores or result in admissions offices having score information that students might not want reviewed.

"Building a Better Admissions Test" (Inside Higher Ed, 11/11/08)

Most standardized admissions tests — from the SAT and ACT to those used for admission to graduate and professional schools, such as the Law School Admission Test — promise one thing: to predict academic success in the first year enrolled. Most standardized tests also face growing skepticism because white and Asian students tend to outperform, on average, black and Latino students.

What if a standardized test managed to predict much more than first-year success? And what if there existed the possibility of having standardized tests that didn’t have ethnic or racial gaps, but better predicted long-term success?

Baylor Pays for SAT Gains

After several days in which educators and admissions experts nationally lambasted its plan to pay accepted applicants to raise their SAT scores (and presumably the institution’s ranking in U.S. News & World Report), Baylor is admitting a mistake. Inside Higher Ed, October 15, 2008

A Dead Language That's Very Much Alive

Students looking to increase their SAT scores are turning back to Latin study. The New York Times, October 6, 2008

College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs

A report by the National Association for College Admission Counseling says colleges should focus less on the ACT and SAT and more on admissions exams keyed to high school curricula.  The New York Times, September 21, 2008

SAT Scores Flat as Test-Taking Edges Upward

Flat SAT scores may be good news when the increased numbers of students taking the test are figured in. Education Week, August 26, 2008