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College Board

A trademark for the administration of aptitude and achievement tests, used by some colleges and universities in admitting and placing students.
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Earlier this fall, we released the "College Board Guide to Implementing the Redesigned SAT," a valuable resource for higher education professionals who have specific questions about how the revised SAT scores will impact their campus.
And even though the increases across higher education outpaced inflation, the rates of increase were lower than those students saw five, 10 or 30 years ago, the College Board said.
Cassidy Turley represented the College Board in selling its nine-story, 65,303 s/f headquarters at 45 Columbus Avenue to Fordham University for $49.5 million.
Conservative education activists have expressed concerns that the new framework for the course issued by the College Board, the organization that administers AP courses and exams that allow high school students to earn college credit, is based on Common Core curriculum.
However, that timetable has been effectively ripped up with the college board's decision to end negotiations with preferred bidder FGP Consortium.

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