Article: SAT's Student Photo Database Draws Comparison to Facebook Profiles
URL: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/sats-student-photo-database-draws-comparisons-to-facebook-profiles/
This article provides varying reactions to the College Board's decision to grant college admissions officers access to a database of student photographs. Starting next fall, in an effort to curb cheating on the SAT, the College Board is requiring that each student who registers for the SAT provides a photograph. The College Board first stated that these photographs would be available with a student's test results, but this rule was reversed after the College Board received significant backlash for it. Instead, colleges will simply have access to this database. College Board employee Katherine Steinberg, believes that the standards of procedure will prevent the photos in the database from being used inappropriately. On the other hand, one critic suggests that giving admissions officers access to these photographs may but him in violation of his school's race-blind policy.
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