24 Facts About College Board

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College Board is an American nonprofit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board to expand access to higher education.

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College Board develops and administers standardized tests and curricula used by K–12 and post-secondary education institutions to promote college-readiness and as part of the college admissions process.

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College Board replaced Gaston Caperton, former Governor of West Virginia, who had held this position since 1999.

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College Entrance Examination Board was founded at Columbia University on December 22,1899, by representatives of 12 universities and three high school preparatory academies.

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College Board maintains a numbered registry of countries, college majors, colleges, scholarship programs, test centers, and high schools.

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The College Board decides how the SAT will be constructed, administered, and used in the United States.

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On March 5,2014, the College Board announced that a redesigned version of the SAT would be administered for the first time in 2016.

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On May 13,2015, the College Board announced the release of a new credential initiative to get students more interested in careers focused in STEM with a Project Lead the Way partnership.

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In March 2020, College Board announced the cancellation of several test dates during the spring of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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On January 25,2022, College Board announced that the SAT will be delivered digitally in an attempt to change the format of test itself.

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College Board's Advanced Placement Program is an extensive program that offers high school students the chance to participate in what the College Board describes as college-level classes, reportedly broadening students' intellectual horizons and preparing them for college work.

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College Board's Accuplacer test is a computer-based placement test that assesses reading, writing, and math skills.

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SpringBoard is a pre-Advanced Placement program created by the College Board to prepare students who intend to take AP courses or college-level courses in their scholastic careers.

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Since the late 1970s, the College Board has been subject to criticism from students, educators, and consumer rights activists.

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The College Board owns the SAT, and many students must take SAT exams for admission to competitive colleges.

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Consumer rights organization Americans for Educational Testing Reform has criticized the College Board for violating its non-profit status through excessive profits and exorbitant executive compensation; nineteen of its executives make more than $300,000 per year, with CEO Gaston Caperton earning $1.

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AETR claims that College Board is acting unethically by selling test preparation materials, directly lobbying legislators and government officials, and refusing to acknowledge test-taker rights.

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The College Board allows high school administrators to authorize fee waivers for some services to students from low-income families, generally those meeting National School Lunch Act criteria.

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Additionally, starting with a pilot program in 2018 and officially rolling out to all schools in 2019, the College Board required students to sign up for AP tests during the fall before early-round college decisions are out.

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In March 2006, it was discovered that the College Board had incorrectly scored several thousand tests taken in October 2005.

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An investigation by the New York Civil Liberties Union revealed that one of the College Board's customers was JAMRS, a military recruitment program run by the United States Department of Defense.

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The College Board and ACT have been sued over the use of this information.

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The College Board has received substantial backlash for these practices.

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24.

In October 2020, the College Board announced its intention to terminate financial ties with Hanban, in place since 2006, following a letter from US senators critical of the relationship.

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