(The Washington Post) By Nick Anderson. Students applying to top colleges crave to hear “yes!” when decisions roll out in March and brace themselves for “no.” But huge numbers get a vague answer that is neither admission nor denial — a tantalizing “maybe” — with an invitation to join a wait list. Wait-list offers far […]
Read More »(Edsurge) By Betsy Corcoran and Mary Jo Madda. Sal Khan burst on the education scene in 2010, as thousands watched his videos and Bill Gates declared Khan was his “favorite” teacher. Since then, the mission of the Khan Academy has been breathtakingly ambitious: To provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. More recently, Khan […]
Read More »April 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman called on the Department of Homeland Security to address whether foreign students are cheating on the SAT to get into American universities and illegally qualify for U.S. visas. In a letter dated Wednesday and sent to the Homeland Security department, Representative Matt Salmon cited a March report by […]
Read More »While the 20%-50% revenue increases tutoring companies enjoyed in Fall 2015 are now squarely in the past, a number of folks have expressed concern that overall business is declining. Phones have quieted, demand has slowed, and anxiety has begun to surface among some of the test prep community. Theories abound over exactly why this […]
Read More »(New York Times) By Mike McPhate. As the news rippled across the web last week that a Long Island student had won admission to all eight Ivy League universities, thousands of people reacted with messages of praise. But when Peter Kang, a high school senior in Chantilly, Va., saw a New York Times article last week about […]
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