I was born, like everyone else, into a family, a community, and a world view: in my case, an educated family, a small Missouri town, and the Baptist Church. Poetry and fiction have given me the power to cho...
“My daughter Allison has always been a bad test taker on standardized tests — she never did well on her ERB’s. She messed up on the SSAT and now on the PSAT. She’s so anxious about the SAT!...
School’s out! The campus is deserted. What happens now to the 10 months of learning your child just acquired? Does my child need a complete break from studying or will he lose some of the knowledge and ...
Current 10th grade students are caught in the switch from the current SAT to the redesigned SAT. They will have to take the redesigned PSAT in October; the redesigned SAT will start in March, 2016. The old (c...
Last fall, 2013, Andi, one of my ninth grade students was fretting about how the changes in the redesigned SAT would affect her. “Was the new SAT really going to be like the ACT?” “If they were going to b...
