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Some Michigan schools going forward with SAT, ACT testing; others will use make-up days Experts encourage students to check if colleges will need their scores Tags:  Some districts are moving forward with testing, while some are waiting. After districts were asked to pause following spring break last week, they were given last minute direction about what to do about the ACT, SAT and Pre-SAT testing that was set to start this week. READ: Ad According to a press release from the state Department of Education, schools are allowed to use make-up testing days, which are April 27 and May 13. But...

Credit Flickr    For parents of high school students, SAT scores are a huge deal, with college admissions and scholarships on the line. Paying tutors are a form of preparation, but scammers are also lurking about and tricking parents into paying for bogus SAT prep materials. Here’s how it can work: you get an unsolicited call from a person claiming to be from the College Board, the company responsible for SAT tests, or another educational organization. “They’re telling them that if they pay, they can get CDs, videos, some other things like books – the prep materials that the child ...

Kids to the state test. >> curriculum is different. >> yes. so when you bring it in, that's why kids don't know nothing about what is going on with the s.a.t.'s. for vocabulary words, teach your damn kids words. it is not that difficult. every day tell your kid a new word. not for s.a.t. but because it is your kid and you give a damn. >> i teach kids new words all the time. i will break your legs you [bleep]. >> don't threaten the kid. educate the kid. >> maybe i will change my ways. >> it is a different education. one thing important to mention with the changing of this s.a.t. testing, what t...

That had competition. once you start to have private schools and home schools being able to take tax credits and things of that nature, you see a better out come. you look at the private schools and the home schools and that's another problem. the gentlemen is now involved with the sat testing. what they are going to do is take the standards that common core is part of the group thing and they are going to take the standards and apply it to the private schoolers to deteriorate the test scores. >> that is one theory of the case. i have to leave it there. we will be following. this common core d...