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...else? Students. At heart, I have for almost four decades thought of myself as an undergraduate teacher. It is still my most invigorating occupation. Fortunately, I have been able to be more and more relaxed, and less and less concerned to make sure that certain specific “points?? were definitively “made” in a given class...
...over students who do not. Capitalizing on this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate, expensive test-prep classes to thousands of high school students. For several hundred dollars and a few weeks of time, these companies often guarantee to raise SAT scores by hundreds of points??and they usually succeed. Unfortunately, opportunities for artificially inflating scores are only available to those with enough time and money to take advantage of them. While some companies have made efforts to extend discounted programs into poor areas, these initiatives are no alternative for a full 6-week...