SAT

SAT scores continued to decline across the U.S., according to the College Board which creates and administers the popular college entrance exams. It's yet another data point in the suggesting that America is falling behind much of the rest of the world in terms of educational attainment.

Last month, IBM's Watson supercomputer beat trivia champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy. At the core of Watson's success was something called Semantic Analysis Technology, and if you want to make your own Jeopardy bet, put some money on the companies that supply it.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's proposed changes to the HOPE scholarship would significantly alter the pledge that Georgia made to students back in 1992. Georgia schoolchildren have been promised free college tuition and other aid for achieving and maintaining a 3.0 GPA. These promises have proven...

Faked transcripts from MIT, a plagiarized Rhodes Scholarship application, and deceived parents. This may sound like a poorly- executed Frank Abagnale Jr. plot, but it's the true to life story of 23-year-old Adam Wheeler. Wheeler's higher ed hijinks were uncovered after he left Harvard over a...

Thursday, October 29, is a date many of you would have circled on your calendar... if you still circled things on paper calendars. It's the day SAT scores for the test taken October 12 are available online.

The College Board, the "not-for-profit membership association" behind the SAT and AP tests, has sued a Texas-based test prep company for illegally obtaining current copies of its test and using them to give clients an unfair advantage in preparing for the test.The Wall Street Journal reports...