US EditionExam administrator College Board scraps tool for identifying disadvantaged students
- The College Board has ended a tool called Landscape that supplied demographic information to colleges about schools and neighborhoods during admissions processes, as announced on Tuesday.
- The College Board stated, "We are making a change to ensure our work continues to effectively serve students and institutions," citing evolving federal and state policy.
- Despite a 2023 Supreme Court ruling prohibiting race-based admissions, some schools have used proxies like location and income to sidestep this ruling, as noted in recent discussions.
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Exam administrator College Board scraps tool for identifying disadvantaged students
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -College Board, the non-profit administrator of the SAT college admissions exam, has said it is discontinuing a tool aimed at helping to identify promising college applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds and nei...
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The Daily CallerCollege Board Discontinues Tool Used By Schools To Racially Discriminate
'Federal and state policy continues to evolve'
College Board Retires Student Data Tool Amid Scrutiny Over ‘Proxies’ for Race in Admissions
College Board, the nonprofit company behind the SAT and AP exams, is retiring a tool that gave colleges detailed information about applicants’ neighborhoods and high schools—data critics said could be used as a proxy for race. In a Sept. 2 statement, College Board said it will discontinue Landscape, a program built on the premise that admissions officers should be able to evaluate a student’s performance relative to the resources available to th…
College Board Ends Tool to Share Geographic Context With Colleges
Landscape, a College Board tool for providing colleges with information about the educational environment of an applicant’s high school and neighborhood based on publicly available information, has been discontinued, the organization announced this week.
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