Dive Brief:

• The College Board's revised SAT includes a plan to give online learning platform Khan Academy practice questions with the goal of providing test preparation to low-income students.
• Even as the College Board has argued that test preparation makes little difference in scores, it is acknowledging that access to that test prep has largely depended on income and is trying to level that playing field.
• Khan's free program will help identify weaknesses in individual students and plot steps needed to improve.

Dive Insight:

By partnering with Khan Academy, the College Board is not only trying to expand access to test prep, but to reshape it using more intelligent tools. At least one expert, however, is skeptical of the kind of impact this can have. Even the best test prep can't close an achievement gap based on wide-ranging inequities, Ohio State Prof. Claudia Buchmann says.