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Ogden junior highs to revamp honors programs

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:19pm

OGDEN — The three junior high schools in the Ogden School District are all on the same page — not just with each other, but with the high schools they feed into.

District officials have been meeting with the principals of all three junior high schools and their corresponding high schools since the fall to revamp the honors program and make sure the junior highs are properly preparing students for the high school programs.

Superintendent Brad Smith said the junior highs have all had honors programs of some sort for several years, but they haven’t been aligned with anything.

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SAT cheating scandal grows

Ann Givens Newsday

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:33am

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Nassau County district attorney investigators are expected to arrest at least four more former high school students as early as next week in connection with an SAT cheating scandal that has gripped Long Island, sources said.

Sources close to the case say the former students have been told they will be asked to surrender to prosecutors soon. The total number of students who will be arrested in the investigation's second wave was not clear Thursday, nor was it clear whether any accused test-takers would be among them.

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More Utah students take, pass AP tests

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 11:46pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- More Utah high school seniors took and passed college Advanced Placement exams in 2011 than in 2010, indicating that more are planning ahead, academically, to attend college.

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New tactic helps teens improve test scores

Chicago Tribune, Tara Malone

Last updated Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 5:25pm

CHICAGO -- Today's teens know well the alphabet soup of high-stakes tests -- the SATs, the ACTs, the APs and the flurry of finals at the end of every semester.

But they might not know about a proven new tactic to ease their anxious nerves on test day and even boost their scores.

A team of University of Chicago psychological scientists found that high school and college students who jotted down their worries for 10 minutes before exam time avoided choking under the pressure. In fact, they performed markedly better.

In a study released Thursday in the journal Science, Sian Beilock and Gerardo Ramirez measured the test anxiety of a class of high school freshmen six weeks before their final exams, tests that would be foundational to the academic transcripts they would ultimately send to colleges. On exam day, they asked half the class to write down their concerns about the upcoming test while other students wrote about an unrelated topic.

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