Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Graduate Schools Win Chinese Protection Against Test Cheaters

"Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A Chinese court barred a Beijing- based Internet site from selling materials such as questions from the Graduate Management Admission Test, bolstering business schools’ efforts to combat cheating by applicants."

Finally the Chinese government is getting in line with the rest of the world to prevent cheating on the business school admission test.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

City clears self in bizarre test spike

An investigation into test scores at a school in the Bronx that skyrocketed and then plummeted back to earth after a principal received a $15k bonus and then retired has closed with no evidence of wrongdoing, despite the principal in question never being interviewed.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Top Students are choosing community colleges

In these tough economic times, more top students are choosing to attend community college. A lot of these students are flocking to honors programs that had previously been difficult to fill.

Friday, December 4, 2009

NYC's Rubber Rooms

What do you do with a teacher who has been accused of violating a policy, but whose case has not been decided? In NYC, the teachers are put into what are known as rubber rooms, sitting idly by, sometimes for years until a complex system of appeals is resolved.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Upcoming Holiday Break on your Wallets!

JLP Education Services would like to wish all of you a Happy Holiday Season! During these next few weeks, students will be released from school and it will become the perfect time to not only reconnect with family and friends, but to also catch-up and get ahead on school projects, standardized test-prep, and college applications, without the added stress of long school days and extracurricular activities.

JLP staff is here to help your students take advantage of the Holiday Break!


Anyone who signs up during the month of December for SAT/ACT/GED/GRE test-prep, K-12 top-tiered customized tutoring, college admission essay help, and/or personalized family college consultations will receive huge discounts. Our prices for this holiday season have never been lower!

  • $25/hour reduction on test-prep
  • $15/hour reduction on JLP customized tutoring
  • $30/hour reduction on admission essays
  • $10/hour reduction on college consultations

*This holiday promotion also applies to JLP's group classes; no other company offers these in-home semi-private groups at this rate.


Generally, test-preparation and tutoring can have astronomical prices with little to no customer service, but with JLP's platform and beliefs, you can save hundreds, and at the same time receive boutique style customer service during your stressful holiday season. Call our office at (305) 894.6024 to see how we can help.

JLP looks forward to earning your trust and delivering you the best service in the industry. We also look forward to helping students achieve their personal best, the most wonderful gift they can give themselves and their parents during the holiday season!

Perfect Scores on the ACT and SAT

Rajiv Tarigopula scored a perfect mark on both the ACT and the SAT, the two most commonly used standardized tests in the United States. This is a very rare and special occurence that was achieved through diligent test preparation. Test prep works!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Mayor, the Teachers and the Tests

The debate in NYC over how to measure school teachers' effectiveness continues on in the Op-Ed section of the NY Times. One reader objects to Mayor Bloomberg's attempts to link teacher tenure to test results.