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Good-bye to the Test?

Oct 1, 2013Nancy WeinsteinCognitive Ability & IQ Testing, College & Career, Giftedness, School Choice, Standardized Tests & Test Taking, Tutoring & Supplemental LearningAdmissions, ERB, independent schools, pre-school, private school, SAT, school admissions testing, school placement tests

By Sarah Vander Schaaff What does it take to get into college? For that matter, preschool? Two recent stories in The New York Times address changes in the admissions process for some schools and both look at efforts to take the focus off standardized tests. First, there was the attention-grabbing headline: “Private Schools are Expected…

Everybody’s Doing It: What To Say

Mar 13, 2013Nancy WeinsteinBehavior & Social Issues, College & CareerDrinking, Peer Pressure, Pluralistic Ignorance

By Sarah Vander Schaaff As parents, we often talk about peer pressure, but how often to we talk about the effects of pluralistic ignorance? It doesn’t roll off the tongue, does it? But, it’s worth knowing about and perhaps even adding to our conversations. I didn’t know anything about pluralistic ignorance until I heard an…

It’s time to meet the MOOC

Feb 12, 2013Nancy WeinsteinCollege & Career, School ChoiceBlended Learning, Coursera, MOOC, Online Learning

By Sarah Vander Schaaff I was amazed to read that Stanford’s six Massively Open On-line Courses, or MOOC’s, reached over 300,000 people. But it wasn’t until last week that I realized the MOOC, or a future incarnation of it, would most likely be part of my daughters’ experiences, even if they weren’t pursuing something in…

CHEATING in the Internet Age

Jan 15, 2013Nancy WeinsteinBehavior & Social Issues, College & Career, Grades & Achievement, Standardized Tests & Test TakingAcademic Dishonesty, Cheating, Ethics, Harvard, Internet

By Sarah Vander Schaaff I didn’t go to Harvard, so I don’t often spend my afternoons perusing Harvard Magazine, but it’s sometimes nice to have a friend or colleague share the news of her esteemed alumni publication. In this case, it was a story “Investigating Academic Misconduct” that caught my interest. We’d all heard some…

The Grade

Dec 31, 2012Nancy WeinsteinCollege & Career, Effort & Motivation, Grades & Achievement, Interests & Passionachievement, add tests for kids, add tests for kids online, adhd medications long term effects, adhd medications side effects children, adhd symptoms kids, adhd tests for kids, attention deficit disorder kids, does my child have a learning disability, dyscalculia kids, dyslexia symptoms children, dyslexia symptoms kids, dyslexia test kids, grades, Grades & Achievement, how is adhd diagnosed, how is dyslexia diagnosed, how to tell if adhd medication is working kids, how to tell if you have adhd kids, how to tell if you have dyslexia kids, Intrinsic learning, Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth, learning disability diagnosed, learning disability diagnosis, neuro evaluation, neuropsych, neuropsychological testing, neuropsychological testing children, online dyslexia test, online psychoeducational testing kids, parents of high achieving kids, psycho-educational, psychoeducational assessment, psychoeducational evaluation, psychoeducational testing

By Sarah Vander Schaaff Imagine you had a child in high school who faced this choice: take a history class taught by a school legend, the kind who challenges her students to be deeper thinkers and better writers and is known for being a tough grader. Or, take the same class taught by a competent…