The Scholastic Aptitude or Assessment Test is now known as the SAT Reasoning Test and is an examination that all high school students are required to take in order to get into college. The SAT is conducted by the Educational Testing Service but it’s the College Board that computes the results of the test.
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The hardest thing about having a Texas education is having people always make the same joke. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some yahoo say “Texas education? Isn’t that an oxymoron” as if they thought they were clever and it was the first time I had ever heard anything like that. Now [...]

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No one wants to go to school summer programs. Perhaps summer school tutoring is what they need, but it is no students idea of fun. Having worked in a school summer tutoring program, I know what it is like. Kids who we work with all year – children who love us – come in during [...]

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With all of the grief the public schools get, some of them actually do pretty well. I am the product of a public school education, and I feel there’s no shame in that. Even though the Lansing public schools aren’t all good, the one I went to was pretty excellent. I suppose that my experience [...]

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From preschool through college, public education is at the center of a tremendous controversy now. Public school education has never been under attack before, but that is just what certain radical elements of the right wing are doing. You see, charter schools, schools of choice, No Child left Behind, and many other proposals being put [...]

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There are people that touch our lives in one-of-a-kind ways. You might not realize how good a friend someone will become when you initially meet them, but there just seem to be certain people that we’re drawn to. These are people that we can rest around and share our inner thoughts and feelings with. [...]

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We live in a culture where everyone is obsessed with having the ideal, the biggest, or the greatest. Knowing that something or someone is good isn’t enough – it has to be better than everyone everything or everyone else. Given this climate, it is no surprise that college ranking is so important to so many [...]

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And a lot of people go off to college almost completely unprepared. Rather than doing the important college research to get ready for the next four years of their lives and their career after that, they just go to whatever school they can get into or whatever school their parents went to. My best friend [...]

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I wanted my high school graduation invitations to be something special. You see, this was the last time that I would see a lot of my friends. When I was writing my high school graduation announcements, I thought about all of them. I know that we all promised that we would keep in touch, but [...]

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Do not be bummed or surprised if you lack direction regarding education and life in general. We all tend to find ourselves walking this path of confusion at some point in life. Most likely that time will follow high school and drag into the college years. Now, this might or may not affect your University [...]

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