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New Test Prep Services Cater to Minority Students

by Tracy Chait , October 17, 2007

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Starlett Craig, director of the office of academic excellence at Clemson’s Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education, says the university hopes to attract more minority students by helping them boost their SAT scores.

At Los Angeles Leadership Academy, a five-year-old charter school with a student body that is 98 percent minority (and an average of four years behind in reading upon entrance in the sixth grade), Principal Beth Bernstein says there was no viable alternative to private tutoring for her students. “They couldn’t get SAT prep if it weren’t for organizations like Step Up.”

--Tracy Chaitt

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