Word: preps
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...represents everything that's wrong with American standardized tests, and SAT prep represents everything that's wrong with American education. Forget teaching to a test. I'm teaching inside a test--living, breathing and eating the SAT, stretching for a precious 10 points here, squirming for another 10 there...
...Head of the Charles: 1. Weekend in October devoted to a big crew race, when college and prep school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. Your roommates will invite total strangers to drink beer, heave and pass out in your room. 2. A good weekend to skip town...
While few dispute the need to gauge student achievement, many are beginning to challenge the calculators. In practice, the tests have spawned an epidemic of distressing headlines: students failing--and being held back--en masse; frenzied parents enrolling first-graders in professional test-prep courses; property values being influenced by test scores in local schools. Even those schools that have posted gains say the success has come at a hefty price. Educators say they have had to dumb down their lessons to teach the often picayune factoids covered by the exams. A study released last month by the University...
...Diversity, however, was knocking at Harvard's door. More and more, the College admitted students it previously would have turned away, and the elite day schools and prep schools that had supplied the College with students became a smaller and smaller source for admissions candidates. No longer did large groups of students who had known each other all the way through high school have the opportunity to live together...
...This correlation showed. The typical Harvard student was, even in that age of social foment, a white male who had been educated in a Northeastern prep or private school...