Call for entries is now closed. Please check back in 2020, when we may run this contest again. Essays must be no more than 1,000 words in length, and must address the question: What do adults not know ...

Dr. Les Perelman, director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells Linda Wertheimer why he thinks the new SAT essay misses the mark. For one thing, he says, too ...

MIT-led research shows students using AI tools for essay writing experienced up to 55% less brain activity and weaker recall than peers working without technology. The findings, supported by related ...

This weekend, hundreds of thousands of high-school students across the nation, and perhaps in other parts of the world, will sharpen their number-two pencils and sit down to take the SAT. The exam ...