College Board

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The College Board is a not-for-profit examination board in the United States that was formed in the nineteenth century as the College Entrance Examination Board. Thomas Fiske became its secretary in 1902. James Conant (a former president of Harvard University) served on the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) in the 1920s. Its membership includes over 5,000 institutions of higher learning, state and local education agencies, and indivdiual schools. It is known principally for managing standardized tests such as the SAT, PSAT, CLEP, ACCUPLACER, and the subject-specific SAT Subject Tests and Advanced Placement tests. The SAT, the most well known of these, is a test widely used for admission to universities in the United States, which over 3 million prospective college students take yearly. Many of the tests are administered by the Educational Testing Service, which is the world's largest private educational measurement organization; ETS also administers other tests like the GRE and TOEFL, independent of the College Board. The College Board's headquarters are in New York City, but the organization maintains 13 other offices across the country and in Puerto Rico. Among the functions of these satellite offices are the development and execution of professional development programs for teachers and school counselors, as well as research into and product development in the area of financial aid. The College Board currently is engaged in several top-to-bottom school redesign programs that are aim to increase achievement by poor and minority middle and high school students. Funded by grants from various foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the College Board Schools operate autonomously within New York City public school buildings, with the EXCELerator program operating in Washington, DC, Duval County, FL, and Chicago Public Schools.<ref>New Investment Broadens College Board's National Education Reform Efforts to Ensure More Students Graduate Ready for College and Work accessdate=2006-11-18 (2006-08-31).</ref>