(Washington Post) By Nick Anderson– Many college-bound students across America are celebrating this week what appear to be impressive results from the revised SAT. But in general the scores are not as strong as they seem at first glance. It turns out the new test comes with a degree of score inflation. Simply put: a […]
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 »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 Kate Zernike. The SAT and the ACT, bugaboos of generations of college applicants, were supposed to shrink in significance as more colleges and universities moved away from requiring standardized test scores for admission. Instead, the companies behind them have pushed into the nearly $700-million-a-year market for federally required tests in public […]
Read More »Barron’s by Abby Schultz. The first revision of the SAT in more than 10 years was given to students in the U.S. on March 5, but thousands of test takers received notice less than a week beforehand that they would instead sit for their exams on the next scheduled test date of May 7. The […]
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