How Do I Improve My Study Skills?
Here are some of the most important study tips consistently practiced by high-achieving students.
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What is Your Study Style?
If you’re looking for a way to boost your study skills this year, try out a couple of these major techniques, and see what serves your mind best.
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Do We Still Need Standardized Testing?
With the decline of the SAT and ACT, it is worth looking back at the original goal of standardized testing and asking ourselves what has been lost, what is worth preserving, and what must change.
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How Long is the SAT?
Preparing for a test means knowing what to expect on test day. With a standardized test like the SAT, this process should be simple. However, the SAT recently underwent major changes that every student preparing to take it should know about. The new, shorter SAT is almost unrecognizable.
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The Best Summer Read-Alouds for 2026
I thought our family’s habit of reading aloud was simple fun. Years later, I recognize it for what it is: a genius homeschooling move. The benefits of reading aloud to your children cannot be overstated.
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The Best High School Summer Reads
If you’re struggling to choose your major in college, you’re in excellent company. With two thousand potential majors offered for study in the U.S., it is no wonder that 1 in 3 college students will change their major in the first 3 years of their program. Yet high school students are often expected to know, before even enrolling in college, exactly what they want to study and why. We’re here to offer some reassurance and tips to help you narrow down your options so you can approach your college years with excitement and confidence.
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How to Choose a College Major
If you’re struggling to choose your major in college, you’re in excellent company. With two thousand potential majors offered for study in the U.S., it is no wonder that 1 in 3 college students will change their major in the first 3 years of their program. Yet high school students are often expected to know, before even enrolling in college, exactly what they want to study and why. We’re here to offer some reassurance and tips to help you narrow down your options so you can approach your college years with excitement and confidence.
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How to Study for the SAT
The College Board claims that the SAT and ACT test transferable skills like reading comprehension and logical inference. And the truth is, students who read well will likely perform well on College Board exams. But the test prep industry survives and succeeds due to the assumption that students can be trained to beat the test–that special knowledge of testing traps will help students improve their score without improving their reading skills, logical reasoning, or education in general. There is far more–or perhaps far less–to the SAT than the skills it claims to assess.
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How it Works: Sharing Your Test Scores with Colleges
In this post, we’re breaking down why score sharing is important for college admissions, the hidden difficulties of sharing your score through the SAT and the ACT, and a better alternative for students seeking to send a test score that they can be proud of to their dream school, completely free of charge.
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CLT’s America 250 Reading Challenge
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, the time is ripe for reflection about what it means to be a citizen of this great nation. Although it is true that a republic grants its people profound freedom of choice, it is equally true that it lays a significant weight of responsibility on the shoulders of its citizens.
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