This article is adapted from an invited address given at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held April 2004 in San Diego, California. My intent in this paper is to offer a personal perspective on the events that led to a major change in the college admissions More
If you or someone you know has taken the SAT, or an Advanced Placement test, or even so little as considered college in the past 12 years, chances are APS Charter Member Howard Everson has affected your life, and you didn’t even realize it. Howard Everson That’s because Everson is More
The SAT, as everyone who ever spent a Saturday hunched over a No. 2 pencil and a machine-readable answer sheet already knows, has deeply marked not only generations of adolescents but American society at large. Scores earned on the nation’s premier college admissions test have long served as a kind More
Remember the analogical reasoning section from the SAT ? Try this one: Mauritania is to Dodo bird as The University of California is to _____ A. Albatross C. SAT I B. Palm trees D. SETI As of 2003, the correct answer could be “C,” if a proposal by University of More
While I was staring at my iMAC screen pondering options for this month’s column, one of my favorite images, a self-portrait by Norman Rockwell, came to mind. In the portrait, we see Rockwell from behind, scratching his head and staring at a canvas that is blank, except for a Saturday More
