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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Curie school has five branches and offers NNAT and CogAT Prep that run $850-$950 dollars. They also run tutoring for K-6 Math and Science. They wouldn't run these classes if they were not profitable. And they are but one tutoring center. There is no way of knowing how many people are sending kids to these types of centers but there are more than enough options out there that make me think it is a decent percentage of the population. Grocery stores have NNAT and CogAT prep books for sale, I have seen them at multiple H Mart and Lotte locations.

So yes, there is a good amount of prepping. This is not exactly hidden.

It is theorized that it is one of the reasons that the test scores have become less important in the process. [/quote]

Profitable does not equal effective [/quote]

Effective enough that parents are willing to spend the money. If there were not enough kids being accepted into AAP or TJ, parents would stop using these centers. [/quote]

No they wouldn't. You realize that research shows all that baby einstein crap and educational toys do nothing to improve the intelligence of toddlers and young children and yet parents spend tons of money on those toys too, right? Did you also realize that numerous research studies have been unable to show a positive effect of top quality preschools for more than a year or two after attendance (in other words, if your kid goes to a cadillac preschool, any minor positive effects have worn off by 1-2 years later)? I know this because I spent years doing marketing for an early childhood education company. So please don't confuse parents spending money on things with the idea that these things have a benefit. People are incredibly bad at discerning cause and effect and disentangling it from the passage of time, especially when there sample size consists of their one or two children in its entirety. [/quote]

You then also realize those same studies show that any closure of “the gap” by Head Start/low income preschool programs is also lost by 2nd or 3rd grade. The biggest correlating factor with educational success is the highest degree obtained by the child’s mother. Turns out all the “equity” programs have a super high price tag and very little effect.[/quote] Some of the drop is because of our overly long summer vacations.  Having two weeks between each quarter and 4-6 week summer vacations would do quite a bit to change it. [/quote]

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