One of the chief architects of the Common Core State Standards was named the next president of the College Board today and said one of his top priorities is to reshape the organization's influential college-admissions test, the SAT, to better reflect the new standards. David Coleman will assume his new duties on Oct.

A week with a Washington High honors student highlights the hopes and challenges of a national push to deepen adolescent literacy Zach Morales learned early that high school would go more smoothly if he kept certain things to himself. But privately, the unassuming teen is proud of his passion for reading.