The Forbes Investigation: How The SAT Failed America
Susan Adams - Forbes 115d 7 tweets
Interviews with more than 75 people expose the deep problems threatening the College Board’s billion-dollar testing monopoly. The great-granddaddy of standardized tests may not survive


Akeel Thee SATallion 115d ago
Why do so many people hate the “non profit” College Board? (A) the selling student data for $0.47 each (B) $850 mill in off-shore investments (C) 18 execs making $300k - 7 mill a year (D) It’s assault on the only rival to its mono…
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leonie haimson 115d ago
MR expose: "operates as near monopoly. Its tests..have stranglehold on student-customers, fuel >$1B in annual revenue & $100M in untaxed surplus. .. $400M is invested w/hedge funds & private equity & CEO David Coleman makes almost $2M/yr
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Madeline Berg 113d ago
A fantastic investigation of the College Board, and how it's failing the very students—especially the non-affluent, non-white ones—that it promises to serve.
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michael london 109d ago
The Forbes Investigation: How The SAT Failed America
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halah 114d ago
“The SAT is basically a dodge. . . . It provides a shiny scientific cover for a system of inequality that guarantees that rich kids go to the most selective college. It makes all that sound like science when it’s not.”
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Atul Butte 113d ago
Interesting, and living through this now… “is a nonprofit that operates as a near monopoly… more than $1 billion in annual revenue and $100 million in untaxed surplus.” Investigation: How The SAT Failed America by
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