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...times a year, high school students converge on test centers nationwide for a fearsome academic ritual: the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which helps determine where tens of thousands of students will go to college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since the S.A.T. supposedly measures innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching...
...College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the S.A.T., has steadfastly tried to discredit cram schools, thus defending the S.A.T.'s objective infallibility. But the coaching schools, which also prepare students for the Law School Admissions Test (L.S.A.T.) and Graduate Record Examinations, have become more than a $10 million annual business. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection decided to investigate them. The immediate target was the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, a chain of 88 schools founded by Stanley Kaplan, 60, the son of a Brooklyn plumbing contractor...
...time to test every thing, from the radiant sun to humble garbage...
...course, the review will test the future of CUE and CHUL. Bruce S. Ives '82, chairman of the assembly's Task Force on the Role of the Assembly, says student opinion is "isolated" and "too decentralized" in the current student-Faculty committee. He adds many assembly members hope the review will result in a recommendation to merge the committees with the assembly...
...into official decisions when they haven't had any for such a long time," she says. Many assembly members hope to change this administrative indifference next fall with the governance review and renewed assembly activity. But they must first surmount besetting organizational and directional problems. Next year will undoubtedly test the assembly's ability to follow through on its promise of increased student participation in decision-making