August 24, 2006--PSATs
Just one question--
To those critics of New York City's new deal with the College Board to offer, free of charge, the opportunity to take the PSAT test (NY Times story below), what are they doing to help their own college-age children study for the SATs? Are their children taking SAT-prep courses with Stanley Kaplan or the Princeton Review? Are their children being tutored and helped with their applications so they can increase their scores and get into good colleges? And how many times do they take the PSATs? Two, three, four?
We all know the answers. And so what hypocrisy it is to criticize this fine initiative that will contribute to raising college awareness and help prepare low-income students for college.
If, as these critics claim, the PSAT "has little educational value" and that the College Board is "profiteering," than so is Kaplan, where their kids are enrolled, and so are the tutors they are hiring at hundreds of dollars an hour.
All the NYC Department of Education is attempting to do is level the playing field. Something all educators should presumable be about.
Sure!
To those critics of New York City's new deal with the College Board to offer, free of charge, the opportunity to take the PSAT test (NY Times story below), what are they doing to help their own college-age children study for the SATs? Are their children taking SAT-prep courses with Stanley Kaplan or the Princeton Review? Are their children being tutored and helped with their applications so they can increase their scores and get into good colleges? And how many times do they take the PSATs? Two, three, four?
We all know the answers. And so what hypocrisy it is to criticize this fine initiative that will contribute to raising college awareness and help prepare low-income students for college.
If, as these critics claim, the PSAT "has little educational value" and that the College Board is "profiteering," than so is Kaplan, where their kids are enrolled, and so are the tutors they are hiring at hundreds of dollars an hour.
All the NYC Department of Education is attempting to do is level the playing field. Something all educators should presumable be about.
Sure!
posted by Steven Zwerling at
4:13 PM
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