Former tutor John Katzman makes the case that they are: Since then, I’ve assumed that the SAT and ACT would simply disappear as people realized just how useless they were. Yet 30 years later, we still rely on them. The College Board and ACT add over $500 million a year to the cost of applying […]
Since you just received a score on the Kennedy analysis, I’ve included a few resources to help you understand how you can do better on the next one. Kennedy Sample Essays (an actual 9) Annotated Prompt with my suggestions for annotation. Scroll down for the prompt) Some general comments: Don’t talk about vague references to […]
According to the Washington Post, the annual cost for day care in 31 states is higher than the cost of a year of tuition and fees at in-state college: A report last fall by Child Care Aware America, a national organization of child-care resource and referral agencies, found that the annual cost of day care […]
According to The Atlantic’s Uri Friedman, Gothenburg, Sweden wants to find out what six hour work days will do for health and the economy: In 1930, in the throes of the Great Depression, cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg decided to conduct an experiment. He replaced the three daily eight-hour shifts at his plant in Battle Creek, […]
From Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom: “This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet […]