None of that is news to the College Board, which began considering how to revise the SAT in late 2012 to better align the exam with what students learn in school. As a result, a growing number of colleges and universities are telling students that standardized test results are not required for their college applications. have compromised the old tests, calling the use of purloined test questions as corrosive-and widespread-in test prep as doping in professional cycling. The New York Times summed up the attitude of students, educators, admissions officers and parents toward the existing SAT by labeling it as “hated.” Reuters this week published a deep analysis of how groups outside the U.S. In recent years, critiques of standardized tests, and particularly the SAT, have grown increasingly sharp. and abroad, are pouring billions of dollars to ready students for what have been gatekeeper tests.
Yet the most challenging question of all may be this: What might Khan’s support of SAT prep truly disrupt: the test-prep business? What about the role of standardized tests altogether?Įveryone agrees there’s never been a better time to disrupt the test-prep world. More recently, Khan also took aim at a narrower but equally provocative goal: Get anyone ready to pass the SAT, also for free. Since then, the mission of the Khan Academy has been breathtakingly ambitious: To provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Sal Khan burst on the education scene in 2010, as thousands watched his videos and Bill Gates declared Khan was his “favorite” teacher.
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