College Board Wants SAT Stats Taken Off Website

Dec 8th, 2004

From the Houston Chronicle, with a hat tip to Stephen's Web/OLDaily

The nonprofit College board, which owns the SAT college entrance exam, is demanding that its chief critic remove from its Web site data showing that minority and poor students scored lower than white and upper-class kids.

In a letter to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, also called FairTest, the College Board claims the Cambridge-based nonprofit organization violated copyright law by posting the scores without permission.

FairTest, which opposes what it considers overreliance on standardized tests, posted the Oct. 27 letter on its Web site along with its refusal to comply with the College Board's demand. FairTest argues that the data is widely available in the public domain and therefore not subject to copyright protection.

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