Tag: culture

  • The Students Trying to Get Ahead in a One-Test System

    At Think Prep, a testing outfit near Penn Station, six students bent over desks in a windowless classroom. They’d been there for the past six weeks, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., studying practice S.H.S.A.T. questions. (The program costs five thousand six hundred dollars.) […] The instructor, whose name was Andrew, wiped down the…