"For the first time, the country’s largest membership organization of college admissions professionals has sharply distanced itself from the admissions testing industry, saying it is time to “rethink” whether it is fair to require students to submit standardized test scores on applications.
Jayne Caflin Fonash, president of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), published a statement that also slammed the College Board and ACT Inc. for not consulting with its members before deciding to offer at-home versions of their exams during the covid-19 epidemic. The College Board owns the SAT and the Advanced Placement (AP) program, and ACT Inc. owns the ACT exam.
Fonash said many members of NACAC - a nonprofit group with more than 15,000 high school counselors, college admissions officers, tutors and others around the world - ‘have raised legitimate questions’ about how valid and reliable such exams will be, and how fair the new plan is to students from low-income and rural areas who cannot take online tests while at home during the coronavirus pandemic." …
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