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...Rebecca A. Berman '99, an Afro-American studies concentrator writing her thesis about a New York minority education program called Prep for Prep, stresses the importance of a good advisor. "I feel like people's theses are made or broken by their thesis experience," she says...
Rebecca A. Berman '99, an Afro-American studies concentrator writing her thesis about a New York minority education program called Prep for Prep, stresses the importance of a good advisor. "I feel like people's these are made or broken by their experience," she says...
...hard to get excited about a jobwhere you are certain to take home work everynight, you can only go to the bathroom atspecified times of the day, and everyone (parents,politicians, etc.) complains that you have it easyor make too much money," she said in an e-mailmessage.CrimsonSarah E. HenricksonTEST PREP At the Martin Luther KingJr. school on Putnam Ave., teacher CHERYL T.HAYNES (rear) oversees her eighth graders...
...Lajoi Moore, the past year has been all about The Test. She started preparing last summer with a six-week Kaplan test-prep course, in which she took mock exams and brushed up on test-taking strategies. Since then, she has dedicated part of each afternoon--and nearly all her Christmas vacation--to writing practice essays and memorizing 150 vocabulary words on flash cards. In the final days before the test, she stepped up her studying regimen, cramming sometimes until after midnight. And when the big day arrived last week, Lajoi took a lucky rabbit's foot to the test...
...formulations. "This is all part of a long-term approach to mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is a human act, with aesthetic dimensions that computers can only begin to understand." The Kaplan course, a leader in test prep, has taken a more pragmatic approach: it has issued a list of strategies for "the age of the computerized essay." One of its tips: use transitional phrases like "therefore," and the computer just might think you're Dickens...