Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They've already relocated some of the delegations to other floors. Others have been moved down the street to the Copley Square. "Whatever negative feelings there are began almost as soon as the conference began," says Jeffrey Gershen, history teacher at Columbia Prep of New York City. Gershen blames the Sheraton for botching room reservations, but still insists that "there were less violations of sanity and behavior than last year...
That woman and her son are hardly the paranoid exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues...
...centers in the United States and abroad. But this is the real McCoy (oops, Kaplan), and we later learn that Kaplan refuses to franchise his operation, continually flying across the country from center-to-center with the incessant drive and ambition that has made him the nation's test-prep messiah...
...student's fears. "The anxiety is there--remember that the students come to me for help." Kaplan does admit, however, that he has done a lot more advertising lately in "self-defense. I want the students to have a choice between us and some of those other test-prep organizations...
...about preparing for the sundry aptitude tests is, and you'll get a hundred answers. Even counselors at Harvard's Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning say there's no one sure-fire method of preparation. Which is exactly the reason why people flock to test-prep centers like Kaplan's for his own answer...