Excellent reporting, thank you. I've re-shared this on a collection of articles on testing: http://bit.ly/testing_testing

Snipers play a key role in the world&rsquo;s armies. They target commanders on the opposing side and other targets with an outsize impact. Working by themselves, they can pin down a group, creating fear and confusion. This week on War College we look at the history of snipers and the role they play now. It&rsquo;s fair to say the role wasn&rsquo;t always considered a badge of honor.

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Since the College Board unveiled a redesigned version of the SAT earlier this year, the organization continues to face problems. A massive security breach this summer resulted in a leak of about 400 questions for upcoming tests. And now, using documents never before made public, Reuters has discovered problems with how the current exam is constructed. In short, the College Board had reason to expect that many students would not be able to complete the math section of the exam, but chose to move forward with the test anyway.
For years, the College Board has struggled to ensure that students don't gain an unfair advantage on the all-important college entrance exam. Some of those problems began overseas, where a booming East Asian industry figured out how to game the college entrance exam...

...And a former test-prep operator says he came to predict the very exams that were about to be given.

Here's Reuters Investigates on the gaming of the SAT.

Current story:
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-redesign/


Previously:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-college-sat-usa-idUSKCN0XH1PJ
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-two/
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/

Reuters Investigates: How to game the SAT

Depending on where you live, this story will either be shocking or old hat. But even if you have an armed "militia" operating&nbsp;near you, you probably don't realize just how developed these states within a state have become - and how far they've drifted from the majority of American society.

Inside America’s armed militias and the new civil war

Catherine Corless has been haunted all her life by memories of the skinny children from a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in her Irish town. Now, her years of work have exposed the truth about what was hidden in the sewers beneath the home. Reuters correspondent Estelle Shirbon reports.

Produced by Elizabeth Culliford and Bethel Habte
Editing by Leela De Kretser and Estelle Shirbon

Ireland's buried babies

As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs rages on, police in Manila are taking hundreds of victims shot in anti-drug operations to hospital emergency rooms. The strange thing is that most of the victims are already dead. Our reporting suggests that the police are sending corpses to hospital to destroy crime scenes and hide the fact they are executing drug suspects. Reuters' correspondent Andrew Marshall reports.

Reporting by: Andrew Marshall and Clare Baldwin
Produced by: Elizabeth Culliford and Bethel Habte
Mixed by: Bethel Habte
Photo credit: Andrew Marshall

Podcast: Dead on arrival in Duterte’s drug war

The Miami Heat's marketing chief Michael McCullough talks about staying financially strong through the ups and downs of life in the NBA.

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