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In $25M Gift, Casino Mogul Bets on Blindness Cure

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will donate $25 million to the University of Iowa to accelerate the search for cures to rare eye diseases including the one that hampers his own vision, the school announced Thursday.

August 8, 2013

Disabilties

Overhaul to GED Exam Undermines Accessibility

The GED’s new computer-based format leaves some concerned that the change will marginalize lower-income individuals.

June 19, 2013

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ETS Launches Electronic Certificates for Learning Assessment Exams

The Education Testing Service announced Monday that it has begun providing electronic certificates to test takers documenting their performance on the ETS Proficiency Profile and iSkills tests.

June 17, 2013

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Judge Again Orders Stop to Mo. College Drug Tests

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A federal judge on Friday again blocked efforts by a central Missouri technical college to drug-test its students, a policy challenged as unconstitutional by the American Civil Liberties Union.

March 24, 2013

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Texas Senate Considers Changes to School Testing

Texas senators started a debate Tuesday that will likely last for weeks as lawmakers try to decide how many standardized tests students must take to graduate from high school.

March 12, 2013

Disabilties

Group Calls for Radical Changes to Standardized Tests

Gordon Commission: Educational assessments should be revamped to help educators improve teaching and learning instead of being narrowly used—and in some cases misused—for purposes of accountability.

March 11, 2013

Students

College Board Finds AP Mean Exam Scores Rise

Roughly 60.1 percent of the 954,070 students who took an AP exam in 2012 achieved a score of 3 or higher on the five-point AP Exam scale.

February 20, 2013

Opinion

New Mind-Boggling Evidence Proves SAT Bias

After reading a recent post I wrote, a Diverse reader pointed me toward a study which strongly supports the viewpoint that the “merit plea” is inherently racist.

December 2, 2012

Students

Dr. Edmund W. Gordon Battles to Eradicate Achievement Gap

Before most knew what an achievement gap was, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon was working to eliminate it. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars on divergent learning styles and championed supplemental education long before it was popular. In fact, Gordon popularized the term. He was also an architect of the nation’s Head Start program in the 1960s. Today, however, at 91, Gordon is still beating the drum of education reform as loud as he did half a century ago with a historic commission to get to the bottom of assessment.

November 7, 2012

Students

Grambling MSN Program Graduates Maintain 100 Percent Licensing Exam Pass Rate

Due to its perfect pass rate on national exams for 14 straight years, an astounding achievement for any professional program, Grambling’s graduate nursing program has gained a reputation for excellence in Louisiana.

September 6, 2012

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ETS Conference on Achievement Focuses on School Funding

The Educational Testing Service conference “Advancing Equity: Removing Roadblocks to Achieving High Academic Standards” brought together 140 officials to discuss ways “to achieve educational excellence for all students.”

November 6, 2011

Sports

Math Prize for Girls Thrives at MIT

The third annual Math Prize for Girls, which took place Saturday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inspires girls to embrace a love of math.

September 19, 2011