Continuity in Education
What We Know: Summer Learning Loss Each fall, students return to their schools fresh off summer experiences and ready to learn. Teachers welcome the opportunity…
7 Ways for Students to Learn from Home
We know that you are experiencing transitions in your learning right now. We have created this guide to help you settle into a routine for…
15+ Tips That Will Change The Way You Approach E-Learning
To support teachers transitioning from in-person lessons to virtual instruction, we’ve compiled some of our best practices to develop and deliver lessons to keep your…
The Move to Online Testing
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The Necessary Move to Online Testing With schools moving to remote learning in the last few weeks, more and more education activities previously thought to…
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Academic Success
Can Social-Emotional Learning Support Performance on College Entrance Exams? Education research has focused extensively on the role of social-emotional and noncognitive learning (SEL) in recent…
ACT Superscoring Means Major Shift in Student Test-taking
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June 2020 Update: ACT has announced that the launch of section retesting has been postponed to fall of 2021. The postponement was to accommodate the…
Updates Announced for the ACT
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June 2020 Update: ACT has announced that the launch of section retesting has been postponed to fall of 2021. The postponement was to accommodate the…
ACT or SAT: Which Test Is Right for You?
At Academic Approach, we work with families and schools across Chicagoland to support students from all backgrounds to grow scores, skills, and confidence both on and…
Academic Approach: Beginnings
Academic Approach: Beginnings I founded Academic Approach in Chicago in 2001, but the story begins in 1996 in New York City when I was earning…
Better Magazine’s 2019 Faces of Chicago
Every spring, every year, high school juniors — like Shakespeare’s Hamlet — face an existential moment: to ACT or to SAT? That is the question.…
The PSAT/NMSQT: Its Purpose & Benefits
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The following is a repost of an essay written by our founder, Matthew Pietrafetta, for the blog last year. As the 2018 PSAT/NMSQT is just…
Communicating with Students About the PSAT/NMSQT
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As high school teachers and administrators, you understand the importance of the PSAT/NMSQT. As standardized test experts, we also get it. Students, however, have widely…
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