Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
I think that there's something just wrong about this: for an extra fee, students can now register online and obtain their SAT scores early. Here is part of my concern: "What is particularly cynical, and demonstrates the way they are using anxiety as a profit center, is that they can put the numbers up there, and then withhold what is already available," said Bob Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, a group in Cambridge, Mass. But also, it seems to me that the testing agency's credo of fairness is being substituted for allegiance to the highest bidder. Just as it gives the people willing to pay an advantage when applying for university admission.

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