If you’re as old as I am, you may remember your parents lamenting a thing called “new math”. Back in the 60’s, the post- red scare of the Sputnik satellite crisis inspired the U.S. Department of Education to endeavor to boost America’s … [Read more...]
The Writing section is going away! Rather, it is being combined with Critical Reading to make one hybrid section being called the “Evidence-Based Reading, Writing and Language Test”. And bye-bye mandatory essay--on the re-designed 2016 SAT … [Read more...]
When they start taking the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Essay portions of the newly designed SAT, students will be now be required to show their potential to translate, synthesize, and make use of evidence identified in a number … [Read more...]
I am in love with the idea of fragility, redefined. People, like pieces of pottery, are sometimes shattered. Frequently, teens and their parents come to me worried about whether they will be able to attain college admissions after rough … [Read more...]
Love him or hate him, filmmaker and cultural satirist Michael Moore knows how to speak in sound bites that capture cultural miasma like few others. His biting take on the rising costs of college tuition evoke both humor and rage when he … [Read more...]
As the ACT has increased in popularity since its 1959 inception, administrators at the SAT seem determined to stay relevant and competitive for those millions of dollars at stake in today’s hyper-competitive college admissions world. … [Read more...]
