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  • Laura Rheinauer

    Associate Director, Educational Connections

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    A native of Allentown Pennsylvania, Laura Rheinauer received both her B.A. in History and M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Lehigh University. Passionate about the field of education, she wrote her Master's thesis on efficacy issues surrounding after-school tutoring programs. Throughout her undergrad and graduate years she worked as a reading tutor. After working in admissions at both Lehigh and Dickinson College, Laura now assists high school juniors and seniors in making their college application stand out to an admissions committee. Laura moved down to VA to join Educational Connections as Associate Director to oversee the SSAT administration, test prep, and specialized reading programs. Orton-Gillingham and Wilson trained, Laura helps place students with reading disabilities in appropriate multi-sensory programs with their assigned tutor.

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    Host: What is the history of the SAT?

    Laura Rheinauer: Well, in 1900 a group of 12 college Presidents from some of the leading Universities at the time and still today, got together to form the Educational Testing Board and they decided we need to come up with a set test that's going to force all of the New England private boarding schools to come up with a uniform curriculum. Well, that never penned out but the first college boards were administered in 1901. In 1948, it officially, the Educational Testing Service formed a branch in Princeton, New Jersey where it still is today. Also, another branch was out in Berkley, California. The goal at that time in the 40s and the 50s was to get the University of California to become the one University system that would force everyone to take the SAT and thus become the leading clients of the Educational Testing Service in the College Board. Officially, that happened in 1960 and colleges and Universities really fell in the line and followed soon and now for the most part, pretty much, every college and University in the country requires a standardized test. In 2005, the newest version of the SAT was unveiled and that included a writing section. That was amidst concerns that the SAT really wasn't measuring all of students' abilities especially, in the areas of writing and the rest is history.

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