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The Case for Smaller Schools

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

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Applying for college, while exciting, can also be incredibly stressful, tedious, and frustrating. Many students feel an intense pressure to attempt to get into the “best” school that they possibly can and, in the process, begin to miss the point. While all schools are certainly not of equal quality, it’s important to remember: there are no objectively “best” schools. Those schools that are touted as the “best” are, more accurately, the most famous and universally… Read more

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Common Core Learning Standards and Adaptive Learning

Posted on September 18, 2010 by

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Jesse Sternberg is a Content Developer at Knewton. Perhaps the biggest recent news in the world of education has been the move by 34 states plus Washington D.C. to adopt a common set of educational standards for their K-12 public schools, known as the Common Core State Standards. The adoption of these core standards has evoked all sorts of panic and rumors: that the standards will cede control of schools to federal bureaucrats (aside from… Read more

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How to ace the SAT Improving Sentences section without turning your brain to mush

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

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Jesse is a Content Developer for Knewton’s SAT prep course. Wouldn’t it be crazy if you had to read paragraphs that looked like this? If you had to read paragraphs that looked like this, wouldn’t it be crazy? The reading of paragraphs that looked like this would be crazy, wouldn’t it? The craziness of paragraph reading like this reading wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t the crazy reading of paragraphs like this? Unfortunately, that is exactly how many… Read more

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The Internet Learning Debate (in GMAT Prep Terms)

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

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Jesse Sternberg is a Content Developer at Knewton, where he helps students with their GMAT prep. The other day, I was telling an older family member that I worked for an online test-prep company when he proceeded to launch into a Bill Cosby-style tirade against “kids today with the hippin’ and the hoppin’ and the clickin’ and the bloggin’,” and the internet’s overall uselessness as an educational tool. Undaunted, I asked him why he felt… Read more

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