Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
The test all my students have been preparing for was yesterday, and I heard from a few of them last night via email. My favorite comment about the three-hour Advanced Placement test came from Katharine, an excellent student who will ace the exam:
I'm pretty sure that majority of the students I know who slept through the exam were not any of your students!! Ha, they took to heart your advice to "check your work and write some more."