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...good round.” Though players agreed the course was fair, the weather was certainly not. “On Saturday we were kind of surprised at how horrible the weather got,” Pollak said. “By my eighth hole, it started pouring with heavy winds. It turned into really tough golf weather. I had a putt on 11 where I was standing over the putt, I’m shaking because the wind so bad, it’s pouring, if I miss it I’m looking at a five footer coming...
Parents, get ready to start stressing out even earlier about whether your kid will get into a good college. The College Board, the nonprofit that owns the PSAT and SAT, on Oct. 22 unveiled a new exam designed to assess eighth graders' readiness for high school and college courses. The two-hour test, known as ReadiStep, will launch next fall, using a multiple-choice format divided into sections that evaluate students' reading, writing and math skills...
...assessment. "There was significant demand for a gut check on students' reading, writing and math skills," he says. As opposed to other standardized tests, Jones explains, ReadiPrep examines college readiness based on criteria similar to those evaluated by the SAT. "And it needed to come earlier - we heard eighth grade is a critical year," he adds...
...more than 775 schools have now made scores optional for admission consideration. ReadiStep is "a cynical marketing ploy," says Jesse Mermell, executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), one of the College Board's most vocal opponents. "[It] is designed to lock eighth graders into the SAT series of exams before they can consider the increasingly popular alternatives...
...Harvard was hurt by penalties and unfinished races in the Boston University Invite on Sunday, mustering an eighth-place finish...