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Friday, March 21, 2014
Khan Academy’s Free SAT Classes Show How Online Education Could Be Awesome - Jordan Weissmann, Slate
Last week’s big news about the new SAT redesign included a very important footnote: In the name of fairness to students who can’t afford $999 Princeton Review classes, the College Board now plans to partner with online learning platform Khan Academy to offer free test-prep materials for the exam. Better yet, they might be really good test prep materials.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/03/10/khan_academy_s_free_sat_classes_a_sign_that_online_education_could_be_awesome.html