Word: preps
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...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...
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 But all the information seemed outdated or useless.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...
...Will failing schools, in search of a quick fix, rely on outside test-prep companies or repetitive drilling sessions? Will they de-emphasize (or even eliminate) subjects that aren't tested like history and art? Or will the tests inspire genuine institutional change? The answers depend in large part on two factors that are not covered by the legislation: the quality of the tests themselves and what, precisely, it means for a student to pass...
...uses in conversation and in writing--an odd mixture of macho vulgarity and effete vocabulary, a DMX-Jane Austin duet in one person--has made him both a success and a target for most serious food writers. It's a learned toughness: he's by nature a softie, a prep-school kid who went to Vassar to follow a girl he had crush on (whom he later married). But after two years he dropped out of college to work in a series of kitchens--including fish shacks where he chopped onions alongside ex-con fry cooks--before earning a degree...