Baird, Katherine (2012). Trapped in Mediocrity: Why Our Schools Aren't World-Class and What We Can Do About It. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. "And a separate process that began in 1926 was complete by 1942: the much easier SAT--a test not aligned to any particular curriculum and thus better suited to a nation where high school students did not take a common curriculum--replaced the old college boards as the nations's college entrance exam. This broke the once tight link between academic coursework and college admission, a break that remains to this day."
Lewin, Tamar (ngày 5 tháng 3 năm 2014). “A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork”. The New York Times. Truy cập ngày 14 tháng 5 năm 2014. He said he also wanted to make the test reflect more closely what students did in high school