By Benjamin Harold (Edweek) Students who took the 2014-15 PARCC exams via computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams with paper and pencil—a revelation that prompts questions about the validity of the test results and poses potentially big problems for state and district leaders. Officials from the multistate Partnership for Assessment of Readiness […]
Read More »(Bloomberg Business by Sarah Grant) In March, the first group of American high school juniors will sit for a newly overhauled Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that features more time for fewer questions, among other changes. But even with a makeover, the test, administered by the College Board, may have lost some of its power to determine […]
Read More »YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With one month to go before the debut of a redesigned SAT, Kaplan Test Prep is reporting that its business for students prepping for this weekend’s ACT has jumped more than 50%, as many students opt to hedge their bets by prepping for both tests. In a November survey of parents of college applicants, […]
Read More »Dan Edmonds writing for Forbes reports that the “Making Caring Common Project, of Harvard’s education school, recently released a report that has received nearly universal praise among professionals in the world of college admissions. And with good reason. The report calls for a de-emphasis of the sheer quantity of academic and extracurricular achievement, and makes explicit what top guidance and […]
Read More »There is a unique and profound stress that comes from hearing one’s tutor has missed an assignment (tutor no show). Worse still: the assignment was missed and the tutor has become unresponsive. What essentially follows is a conversation with the parents during which a tutoring company owner is placed in the unenviable position of trying […]
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