Could you summarize the recent debate among educators regarding whether the SAT essay should be mandatory again?
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Could you summarize the recent debate among educators regarding whether the SAT essay should be mandatory again?
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- College Board’s own research at odds with decision to axe the SAT essay · hechingerreport.org
- An Update on Reducing and Simplifying Demands on Students – All Access · allaccess.collegeboard.org
- College Board is scrapping SAT’s optional essay and subject tests · washingtonpost.com
- The SAT and test-optional admissions: What the research actually shows · chalkbeat.org
- 100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. Where Is It Headed? · smithsonianmag.com