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...Chu’s mind right now, she is psyched about next fall as well. “I’m looking forward to the experience of different cultures coming together again,” she says, “like at [Chu’s Connecticut prep school] Choate, but with more freedom. It’s a whole other world.” But before she enters this other world, Chu is immersed in the fast-paced, icy world of elite amateur athletics...
...sorry record for the third year in a row, ranking in the bottom 20% in the state. But Camacho now has a new playbook. He spent the previous afternoon at a tutorial paid for by the school as part of a $10,500 package designed by Kaplan, the test-prep company that, for the past half-century or so, has taught students how to beat the SAT. From now on, his students will spend 50 minutes a week in his class and another 50 in math studying Kaplan's Test-Taking Strategies manual. The approach appeals to the coach...
Other sacrifices may not be so easily recouped. Critics, including some classroom teachers, contend that many test-prep activities--such as skimming instead of reading passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn...
Schools have needed little convincing. The market for K-12 test-prep services for state exams, which was almost insignificant three years ago, is now a booming $50 million arena dominated by familiar names such as Kaplan, The Princeton Review and tutoring powerhouse Sylvan Learning Centers, which last year launched a $900 test-prep course for students as young as those in third grade. These testing giants have been joined by hundreds of new, small-time firms that often have little to recommend them beyond their own breathless promises of higher scores. The demand will only grow with...
...focused on prisoner re-integration. "People are looking over their shoulders waiting for them to fail." It would not require more money to improve and coordinate these programs, she says. It would just require more smarts. At Gowanda Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Sanders went through a prerelease prep program. But all the information seemed outdated or useless. No one from the state's housing, welfare or Medicaid services came to help the soon to be released begin the paperwork chase, he says. So when Sanders came out and started the process, he had to wait the customary...