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Finally four board members agreed in late spring that only full-scale restructuring could salvage SHS Shlomchik, Mason, Steven N. Kaplan '81, and Susan Kish '80 drafted a reorganization plan which installed a coordinator in each House to supervise the guides...
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...prepare students for the Law School Admissions Test (L.S.A.T.) and Graduate Record Examinations, have become more than a $10 million annual business. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection decided to investigate them. The immediate target was the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, a chain of 88 schools founded by Stanley Kaplan, 60, the son of a Brooklyn plumbing contractor who has been tutoring all his professional life. Kaplan, rather brashly, had at one time advertised the ability of his review course, which now costs $275, to raise S.A.T. scores...
...College Board was quick to point out the report's limitations. It studied the curriculums of only two commercial coaching schools, and only one of them (Kaplan's) was found effective. Nonetheless, the Educational Testing Service, which actually administers the tests, grudgingly admitted that "some students on some occasions may have increased their scores after attending some coaching courses." It was one more retreat from a mid-1960s position that "intensive drill is at best likely to yield insignificant increases in scores...
...Louis P. Kaplan '81, another letter-writer and a student member of the Social Studies group that reviews committee faculty appointments, said yesterday. "Kate is one of the few people on the faculty who really cares about your ideas, about you as a person. She involves you with her life...