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January 2020
Happy 2020! We’re excited to be ringing in the new year with you. Many new year’s resolutions are about starting something new - a new diet, a new workout routine, a new reading challenge. But we’d like to focus on looking differently at what you already have in front of you and finding some clarity. For this newsletter, that means brushing away rumors and identifying factual answers to burning questions. Will a standardized test score define a whole college career? What else are colleges looking for? Our blog series seeks to answer these questions and more.
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Parents + Students: This month’s blog post, “Introducing...the ACT,” puts the spotlight on the SAT’s younger challenger, touching on a bit of history and information about the current test.
Schools:  Winter break is a critical time for students, teachers, and school administrators to restart and renew. Schedule an SAT and/or ACT class at your school for the early months of the school year to catch your students before they slip back into the grind.
From Around the Web
  • A commission studying education reform in Maryland hopes to address inequalities in schools by providing resources to schools where they are most needed, among other goals.
  • Breaking the college application process into bite-sized pieces over a longer period of time can make it feel less intimidating. This article gives tips on how to better organize your personal journey.
  • Following recent political events, many teenage Twitter users had questions about the Selective Service requirement as part of filling out their FAFSA forms. The hashtag “#FAFSA” even trended nationally.
  • Out of over 8,000 entries from around the world, read the winners of the New York Times’ first personal narrative essay contest.
  • A parent squashed her daughter’s dreams of a fancy college - to save her from a life saddled with student debt.
  • A group of Colorado teens shared what they find stressful about the current high school experience and give suggestions about what their teachers could do to help.
 
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I feel much more prepared for the SAT now and studying on my own feels less daunting.
- Marriotts Ridge HS student
I think this course gave me a good experience with the test and then allowed me to reflect on what I could do better which you usually can’t do with standardized tests.
- Z.M., Dulaney HS student
My daughter took the SATs today.  She came home excited that she was able to use some of the strategies she learned during the SAT class at Howard High.
- Parent of Howard HS student
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