AAIE 2013: The Top 10 List
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 2013 — In 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed by representatives of 50 at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. So it’s fitting [...]
Don’t Waste Your Time: How to Effectively Study for AP Exams and Subject Tests
Change is Coming It seems like the entire educational online community is a buzz with insight, forecast, and idea about proposed SAT redesign might look like. Over the past few days, I’ve [...]
Upcoming SAT Change Predictions (Part 2): Content
In Part 1 of the New SAT Change Predictions, I discussed what potential changes to the structure of the SAT might mean for students and their test prep. In addition, another potential change to [...]
Hong Kong Hosts Acres of SAT Test-Takers
HONG KONG, Jan. 26, 2013—Today I visited an exhibition hall at the Asia World Expo, next door to Hong Kong International Airport, before heading home to Los Angeles this morning. As most students [...]
Upcoming SAT Change Predictions (Part 1): Structure
In light of the news that the SAT might be changing, instead of continuing my discussion of SAT readers, I would like to discuss the potential changes to the SAT and what these might mean for [...]
Making Learning Relevant and Less Boring
Like many students, there was a point in my academic career when I questioned the relevance of school. I had convinced myself there was little possibility that I would “ever use this stuff again” [...]
SAT Tips: 3 Simple Solutions to Counter “Slow Reading” Habits
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The section of the SAT that I get asked about the most is the critical reading portion of [...]
Education and the Promise of Globalization
Last month, while visiting schools in Southeast Asia, I met with the academic dean of a small international school, one of the few in Singapore that follows an American curriculum. The school [...]
Education Revival Takes Hold in Hong Kong
HONG KONG, January 25, 2013 – Yesterday, not once, but twice I felt like I was having déjà vu. But it wasn’t anything paranormal: I had visited three different schools, all three of which [...]
Arts Education on the Rise in Asia
HONG KONG, January 24, 2013—When hundreds of millions of people are trying to pull themselves out of poverty and, in some cases, into enviable wealth, it’s understandable that they pay more mind [...]