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5 Education Articles to Start Your Week: The Cost of Education Wars

By Shannon Sweetser On January 3, 2011 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, General, In The News, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring, Testing
We can only hope that this new decade holds some solutions to the many educational challenges we have faced. The financial burdens facing the nation have left many classrooms striped of all extraneous resources. Many teachers are having to do so much more with so much less. In this week’s top education articles to start your week, [...]
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5 Education Articles to Start Your Week: Americans Failing Army Entrance Exam

By Shannon Sweetser On December 27, 2010 · Add Comment · In Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, General, In The News, Socrato: System, Teaching, Test Preparation, Testing
We at Socrato hope that you”re throughly enjoying the last week of 2010. A snowstorm has crippled much of the Northeast, so I hope that wherever you are, it”s nice and warm. Though last week was a notoriously slow news week, I was able to find a few interesting blogs and articles on a variety [...]
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Education Heartbreaker: It’s Not You, It’s Poverty

By Shannon Sweetser On December 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Education: Industry, In The News, Socrato: System, Teaching, Test Preparation, Testing, Tutoring
It sounds like something from a bad breakup. “It’s not you, its poverty.” Or, at least, that’s what some education reform advocates, including Stephen Krashen, are saying about student performance. A contributor for the Schools Matter blog, Krashen believes that our country performs poorly on international test results such as the PIRLS because, compared with [...]
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Do Colleges Really Care about SAT Scores?

By Socrato Admin On November 10, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Assessments, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Teaching & Tutoring, Test Preparation, Testing
The following is a guest post by Ellen Richards, the founder of Ellen Richards Educational Services, a college admissions consulting and tutoring firm in Los Angeles, CA. Before a student enters their junior year of high school, they’ve probably already heard all about the importance of standardized tests like the SAT and the ACT. With [...]
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22 Mind-Blowing Infographics on Education

By Shannon Sweetser On November 4, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Assessments, Content, Education: General, Education: Industry, Education: Technology, Exam: SAT, General, Testing, Tutoring
Data is extremely valuable for all of us in the education industry; we”ve got to consume a lot of it to make valuable decisions for our students and schools. However, when you spend too much time with your  nose in your computer, e-reader or a book, it”s easy to forget what information looks like. That”s [...]
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Warning: Learning Expectations Can Vary Dramatically by State

By Shannon Sweetser On November 3, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Education: Industry, In The News, Testing
Imagine 2 people have learned to make a birdhouse in two different states from a different instructor. After they take the birdhouse-builder’s standardized test, we line up the birdhouses and take a look. According to the birdhouse building manual for Massachusetts, which is where the builder is from, one birdhouses is missing a few key [...]
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Study Finds New Orleans’ Student Performance Doubled After Katrina

By Shannon Sweetser On October 21, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Education: General, In The News, Testing
After the initial aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it was difficult to predict how it would change the lives of students in New Orleans. After all, when your city is in shambles and many livelihoods rely on the rebuilding process, I’m sure it’s hard to imagine going back to school and returning to normal life ever [...]
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SAT vs. ACT Exam: Which Test is More Popular?

By Socrato Admin On October 7, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Testing, Tutoring
If you are wondering whether the SAT Exam is more popular than the ACT Exam or vice versa, then look no further. Socrato has compiled some of the latest data from the SAT and ACT exams and put them together in a couple of graphs for you to figure that out. The source of the [...]
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MCAS State Standardized Test Results Are Out: Mostly Good News

By Socrato Admin On September 8, 2010 · Add Comment · In Testing
The Massachusetts State standardized test results are out and the news is mostly positive. There was significant improvement year over year for middle school students while the high school scores have not shown any improvement. For the first time ever more than 50% of 7th and 8th graders tested more proficient or better in Math. [...]
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Free eBook: 5 Tips to Improve Standardized Test Reporting

By Socrato Admin On June 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Teaching & Tutoring, Testing
Most test reports are only skin deep and cannot measure all the reasons behind a student’s performance. The over simplification of performance reporting by providing simple letter or number scores is no longer enough. Students and their tutors require actionable information based on quantitative data to help them improve their scores on standardize tests such [...]
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