Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-preparation industry. Dozens of ...

Desperate to get a leg up on the competition, students and their parents spent a record $1 billion on test prep services last year. Most of that money went to improve the chances of high school ...

So many students signed up for a new test-preparation course for eighth-graders interested in attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology that some educators say it is diluting the ...

Continuing Education and Conferences is offering a Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) preparation course during summer 2008. The class will meet from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Thursday evenings, ...