Caperton's choice: Why the strivers scoring system threatens the college board

Why did The College Board summarily squelch an experimental SAT scoring sys tem that could have been helpful to hard-pressed college admissions officer s in their efforts to build academically strong and diverse classrooms? As was the case a decade ago when a similar experimental effort was discont inued by the Educational Testing Service, it appears that encouraging the e mergence of a fairer or more useful alternative to the standard SAT scoring system was profoundly threatening to the $250 million annual income which supports both The College Board and the Educational Testing Service.