The Dog Ate the SAT Scores, Gays and Conservatives Unite, and Recess Redux

Teacher Magazine ’s take on education news from around the Web, March 9-March 15.

This has not been a good week for the College Board. First came the news that the scores of 4,000 students who took the SAT last October were misreported . For the most part, the scores were 10 to 100 points (out of 2,400 total) lower than they should have been, but for 16 students, they were more than 200 points deficient. This mishap, detected after two test-takers requested a re-examination of their scores in December, sent college admissions departments scrambling to re-review applications. And, according to college counselors, it infuriated those high schoolers who'd altered their application plans based on what they originally...