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January 19, 2021 at 6:18 am

College Board is scrapping SAT’s optional essay and subject tests

The pandemic, which shuttered schools last March and continues to disrupt all levels of education, has created unprecedented turmoil for the SAT and the rival...

Nation & World

August 21, 2020 at 9:36 am

Actress Lori Loughlin sentenced to two months in prison in college admissions bribery scandal

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were sentenced Friday to spend months in federal prison for participating in a fraudulent scheme...

Nation & World

August 9, 2020 at 3:28 pm

School year like no other launches with chaos coast to coast

WASHINGTON - It's going to be screen time all the time for kindergartners and graduate students alike. Teachers are threatening strikes. And students are already...

Nation & World

May 21, 2020 at 7:44 am

In a switch, actress Loughlin, husband agree to plead guilty in college admissions case

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with a scheme to get their two daughters fraudulently admitted...

Nation & World

February 7, 2020 at 12:24 pm

Businessman gets nine months of prison in college admissions scandal, the stiffest penalty yet

A former asset management executive from California was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison for conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in an...

Nation & World

November 16, 2019 at 5:50 pm

Far-right agitators roil the conservative movement on college campuses in battle to define Trumpism

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro revised his usual bash-the-leftists script in a speech this month to a packed auditorium at Stanford University. He still mocked the...

Nation & World

October 14, 2019 at 2:50 pm

When you check out a college online, they check you out — and rank you

While colleges have used data for many years to decide which regions and high schools to target their recruiting, the latest tools let administrators build...

Business

October 3, 2019 at 1:26 pm

Ex-leader at New York law firm gets one month in prison in college admissions scandal

A former leading partner at a prominent New York law firm was sentenced Thursday to one month in prison for scheming to boost his daughter's...

Nation & World

FILE — An SAT prep class at the Business of Sports School in New York, March 1, 2016. The SAT is adding an “adversity score” to the test results that is intended to help admissions officers account for factors like educational or socioeconomic disadvantage that may depress students’ scores, the College Board said on May 16, 2019. (Yana Paskova/The New York Times) XNYT74 XNYT74

May 16, 2019 at 12:56 pm

Coming soon to SAT: ‘adversity score’ offering snapshot of challenges students face

The "adversity score" will focus on social and economic factors associated with a student's school and neighborhood, such as median family income, crime reports and...

June 18, 2018 at 2:56 pm

Several private schools in the D.C. area are scrapping Advanced Placement classes

The seven schools drew attention to a quiet pushback against Advanced Placement in certain quarters of the education world even as the program has gained...