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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Read More »(Orlando Sentinel) School districts could abandon Florida’s new standardized test and give students the ACT or SAT instead, under a bill the Florida Senate‘s education committee approved today. The bill (SB 1360) was inspired by Seminole County school leaders, who last year urged the state to allow them to use national tests instead of the […]
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