How To Navigate a Gap Year
A College Application Guide for Gap Year Students By Kyle DeNuccio — New York Times April 6, 2017 Applying to college is onerous enough. Asking to defer enrollment for a… Read more »
Can You Prevent Math Anxiety?
Fending Off Math Anxiety By Perri Klass, M.D. — New York Times April 24, 2017 My mother was what we would now call math anxious, if not phobic. My daughter,… Read more »
The Redesigned SAT: A Year Later
One year ago, College Board discarded the SAT format they had used since 2005. The redesigned SAT launched in March of 2016 was a brand new format with the stated… Read more »
Test Taking is a Lifelong Skill
First, a true story. A mom was waiting for her eighth-grade daughter to finish her tutoring session for SSAT test prep (for private school admission). As we talked about the… Read more »