Apr 24, 2022 | Blog, Testing
Educational inequality in the United States is an obvious, growing, and well-documented crisis¹. Individual students have unequal and insufficient access to quality education, districts are underfunded, and the generational effects of redlining have resulted in de... 
Apr 11, 2022 | Admissions, Blog, Testing
Standardized tests are a fact of life, ranging from educational assessments in schools to the SAT to a driver’s license test to professional certifications. And as long as there are standardized tests, there will be test prep for one simple reason: it works. After... 
Mar 28, 2022 | Blog, Testing
Debate about the value of testing abounds these days. The focus is primarily on the big picture, exploring whether testing is racially biased, economically prejudiced, or even useful at predicting college performance for applicants. While both sides make compelling,... 
Mar 2, 2022 | Blog, Testing
When most of us think of tests, we think of tests in school. When we think of standardized tests, we think SAT, ACT, or similar exams used for admissions. What we are less likely to envision are the thousands of other standardized tests used for thousands of purposes....Jan 14, 2022 | Blog, Community
Join us January 31st at noon to discuss Educated by Tara Westover. Please message Robin Satty or Anna Solomon with any questions. The following is the book’s description from Amazon. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the...Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, Tutoring
The problem above, from the October 2019 SAT, illustrates an interesting and powerful principle that almost always eludes students: a quadratic expression is a structure where the base element does not have to be a simple variable lacking a coefficient or an exponent....