Test Prep Industry News

[shareaholic app=”share_buttons” id=”23825847″] Have you ever thought of standardized testing as big business? Probably not. It may come as a surprise that the standardized testing industry is worth between $400-$700 million according to the National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy at Boston College. Additionally, Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board, nonprofit owner of SAT, and Richard Ferguson, former executive officer of ACT, Inc., pulled in salaries of $1.3 and 1.1 million, respectively, in 2011 alone! Parents can…

[shareaholic app=”share_buttons” id=”23825847″] According to Reuters the college board is aware that the new SAT exam questions have been leaked to students overseas and they have no intention to replace or change the exam questions. Blacke Morrison, investigative project editor for Reuters stated, “We found students from China who told us they had seen and studied ahead of time parts of tests they ended up taking. We also discovered something else- that even when tipsters warned security officials that exams…