KarenTrina Childress

Parents always want to know how to help their student improve their standardized test sc ores.  Whatever the age of your child, read this en...

Today is part 2 of Lauren Gaggioli's post about the new SAT and ACT.  If you missed the first part, you can find it here . Th...

 Today, Lauren Gaggioli of Higher Scores Test Prep is my guest writer.  Lauren addresses changes in the ACT and SAT and advises on ...

Now that the initial uproar about the new SAT has subsided, it is time to think about how to prepare your student for the new test   If...

  I use Rod and Staff grammar curriculum and as a result, my students have had many years of sentence diagramming.   Year after year, t...

 Friday, we received notification in the mail that our son, Jesse, has been named a National Merit Commended Student.   This was not ...

As you probably noticed in my last post titled What To Do About the New SAT , my editor believes in brevity.   She thought my original post...

The brevity of this post is brought to you by my mean editor.  Don't like the new SAT?  Take the ACT instead.  The end. * the...

I recently realized that lack of a broad vocabulary hinders many students from scoring higher on the SAT or ACT test. Improve your ...

A reader recently contacted me with this question: "I have read your advice on preparing for the SAT and PSAT tests, but what about ...

How does  National Merit Qualifying work?   National Merit Semi-Finalists are the top 1% of PSAT scores of high school juniors from e...

Homeschoolers are often confused as to when, if, or why students should take the PSAT test.

Read good books! With two National Merit Scholars and two National Merit Commended Scholars, I am often asked, “How should my student...