This month's Harper's features a takedown of Kaplan's SAT Advantage program written by Jeremy Miller, a former coach. The author, who spent nine years working on and off for the test prep company and now teaches high school in Colorado, offers a scathing assessment of the program that's designed to help students pass state tests required by No Child Left Behind. He tells of pressing ahead in order to cover as much of the Kaplan material as possible, well aware that students hadn't grasped the concepts presented. For this, he was paid $295/day and the SAT Advantage program helped Kaplan's r...

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