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Marcus, Jon – Education Next, 2021
Test-optional and test-blind admissions policies accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic would appear to imperil College Board's SAT college-entrance exam, the rival ACT, and their respective parent organizations. This state of affairs follows years of complaints that the exams favor the affluent. And, in fact, both of the notoriously secretive…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Admission
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Basu, Pratyusha; Pawson, Eric; Akhter, Majed; Palmer, David; Mervine, Valerie M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Wilkinson, Veronica; Hayden, Mary – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
This article presents a summary of the findings of a recent study that points to the importance of informal, out of classroom, interactions in effecting change in student attitudes as they pass through the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, designed as an internationally recognized pre-university programme for students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Advanced Placement Programs, Attitude Change, High School Students