This table shows the amount of time students are expected to spend on out-of-class work each week, proportional to the number of credit hours they've registered for. (Graphic by Chuck Dearden) ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-preparation industry. Dozens of ...