The Christian Science Monitor – Stacy Teicher Khadaroo
“Minorities and low-income students are getting a boost in college enrollment as more states expand access to SAT and ACT college entrance exams, according to several recent studies. Traditionally, the SAT or ACT has been administered at testing centers on weekends at a cost of up to $50 – a barrier to disadvantaged students. But as states incorporate the use of SATs and ACTs as a statewide achievement test for high-schoolers, giving them at school and in many cases for free, they remove an important impediment to college eligibility. At least 14 states now use the tests that way, and by next year the number is expected to top 22. Another handful of states either pay for or require students to take one of the two tests.”(more)