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...Though student aid makes it possible for many students from low- and middle-income families to afford college, we still face inequality in access to higher education across ethnic, racial, and economic lines,” College Board President Gaston Caperton said, according to a press release...
Which raises the possibility that Caperton may, in his well-intentioned effort to ameliorate schools, ruin his main instrument for doing so. "I'm worried they may be asking one test to carry too many buckets of water," says Fred Hargadon, a former College Board vice president. Caperton believes the SAT should be a tool of social change as well as of social measurement--that it should serve communitarian ends even as it tries to give reliable, valid scores to individual kids and colleges. "This [new] test is really going to create a revolution in the schools," he says...
...Once they do, a much richer, knottier conversation about the New SAT will probably begin. For decades, the purpose of the test has been to try to measure students' general-reasoning abilities, not their specific knowledge of algebra or the extent to which they have written practice essays. Caperton's feat is actually twofold: not only has he begun to shape a U.S. curriculum, but he has also granted victory in a long, contentious argument about whether admissions tests should assess aptitudes or achievements. For decades, the SAT was, at its heart, an aptitude test; now it's becoming more...
...becoming even less of one? Largely because Richard Atkinson, president of the University of California--the College Board's biggest client--wanted it to. Board president Caperton surely has his own ambitions, but it's unlikely he would have sought such radical changes if Atkinson hadn't spoken out against the SAT. In a February 2001 speech in Washington, Atkinson recommended that his university stop asking its 76,000 yearly applicants for SAT scores. It's hard to overstate the gravity of this moment for the College Board. If U.C. had followed through on the recommendation, the board could have...
...some ways, Gaston Caperton has an excruciating job these days: he must sell the New SAT even as he defends the current test against its critics. He cannot say the College Board was wrong about the SAT all these years; nor can he say the board was wholly right about it. That's why he argues, on the blade of a knife, that the SAT is not becoming a typical achievement test but that it is coming "into a great balance" between a test of "critical reading, comprehensive writing and higher mathematics" and a test of "learned skills that...