Education Week

Colleges Hesitate to Embrace SAT Writing Test

Three months after the debut of the SAT writing test, some colleges are expressing concerns about its validity, and many have decided not to require the scores, at least for the time being. So far, ...
Newsday

Malady: The SAT writing test teaches students how not to write

Earlier this month, several hundred thousand prospective college students filed into schools across the United States and more than 170 other countries to take the SAT - $51 registration fees paid, No ...
Seattle Times

Writing test on SAT not a major factor

The prospect of churning out a coherent essay in the midst of the pressure-filled SAT has been making high-school students around the country quake. But now that the first results of the new SAT ...
Inside Higher Ed

For Fate of SAT Writing Test, Watch California

The essay portion of the SAT and ACT has never been a requirement at most colleges and universities, and has been in place only at a few dozen colleges in recent years. But millions of students ...
American Enterprise Institute

Save the SAT Writing Test

Princeton and Stanford last week became the latest schools to drop the SAT essay requirement. The College Board made the section optional in 2016. Skeptics will applaud this essay’s demise as a return ...
The Red & Black

UGA findings support SAT writing test

The first independent, academic study of the redesigned SAT college entrance exam finds that the new writing portion is a much better predictor of academic success than the verbal and math portions of ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

English Teachers Blast SAT Writing Test

The National Council of Teachers of English said in a report issued this month that the new writing component of the SAT is not an effective way to measure students’ writing ability or potential.
NPR

SAT Writing Test Worries Disadvantaged Students

When more than 300,000 teenagers take the SAT college entrance exam this weekend, they will have to write an essay for the first time in the history of the test. The new focus on writing is causing ...
Inside Higher Ed

Princeton and Stanford Drop SAT/ACT Writing Test

Princeton University on Thursday announced that it will no longer require applicants to submit writing portions of the SAT or ACT. Stanford University is making a similar change. Princeton is, however ...
Wall Street Journal

Save the SAT Writing Test

Princeton and Stanford last week became the latest schools to drop the SAT essay requirement. The College Board made the section optional in 2016. Skeptics will applaud this essay’s demise as a return ...