Connecticut announced on Thursday that all 11th graders in the state’s public schools would soon be required to take the SAT college admissions tests, replacing an existing statewide exam amid widespread concern that the nation’s students are tested too much. With approval from the United States Department of Education, Connecticut said it would make the SAT a requirement, administered without cost to students, beginning in the 2015-16 school year. “We had reached the conclusion that there was, in fact, too much testing in 11th grade,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in an interview. “We thought it was just a tremendous amount of pressure concentrated in a single year.”

August 6, 2015 ・ From The New York Times