Roy Freedle: SAT puts Blacks at a disadvantage

The Huffington Post - Research psychologist Roy Freedle has been working for 23 years to prove that the SAT puts black students at a disadvantage -- and his ideas are just now gaining traction.

Freedle's long-term project was widely greeted with dismissals and criticism from those in academia. But a recent paper in the Harvard Educational Review corroborates Freedle's original thesis and calls for the testing industry to look further into the claim.

The Washington Post has more on Freedle's initial findings, which identified a difference between "hard" and "easy" questions on the SAT: Read more.

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