A Harder SAT?

In March 2016, the redesigned SAT makes its official debut. Will the new test  be harder? That’s still up for debate. The revamped SAT does, however, contain a number of noteworthy changes, including longer reading passages rather than isolated sentences and more in-depth math problems. Recently, The New York Times offered a sampling of questions from a practice SAT test. Take this quiz and see how well you would do.

Full disclosure: I managed to score 5 out of 5 correctly, but my impatience caused me to render a guess on at least two questions.

Student Learning: Plant More Trees

What if the outside of a school’s windows is as critical to learning as to what’s inside the building? A new study explores the impact of campus greenery – or lack thereof – on student performance.