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necessary for success in college.  \nThe new Common Core standards,consistent with ACT standards,emphasize the reasoningcomponent,implicitly recognizing a relative weakness among students in this area.  \nWe have long found that this is the component most lacking in students'approach to theACT.That is,their knowledge and skills,though not optimal themselves,are sufficient to scorehigher,but their scores are held back due to a failure to apply knowledge and skills throughreasoning to their full potential on the test.(See Appendix 1.)  \nThe ACT is selective in the information it requires students to know.But it requires them toknow this selection very well.It also demands a high level of academic skill in the areas ofreading,writing,and arithmetic.And,again,it requires active and sustained reasoning to usethis set of knowledge and skills most effectively.  \nThe ACT helps schools and policy makers around the country in the mission of college readinessby measuring students'performance.Our complementary approach is to help students directlyby showing them how to hone their abilities to score closer to their potential on the ACT.  \n## Our goals\n\nAs the title of our proposed program implies,our immediate goal is to raise the average ACTscore ofpublic school Arkansans measurably in the first year and to continue to raise thisaverage over subsequent years.  \nWe know how ambitious this goal is,but we are confident we can achieve it,due to the uniqueset of expertise,resources,methodology,and delivery system we can provide.What we areproposing has not been attempted before (see History of Test Prep in AR below),so it isimportant not to measure our proposal only against previous efforts.  \nBy honing students reading,writing,arithmetic,reasoning,and test taking skills and therebyraising their ACT scores,we expect the following collateral benefits:  \n1.Enabling students to gain admission to more colleges and universities and to earm more inscholarships at those institutions.  \n2.Reducing the rate of remediation in colleges and universities in Arkansas.  \n3.Increasing the rate of completion of postsecondary education in Arkansas.  \n4.Reducing the time of completion of postsecondary education in Arkansas.  \n5.Improving students'performance in Arkansas colleges and universities.  \n6.Improving college students'ability to choose and plan for careers and jobs  \n7.Improving college graduates'ability to compete capably for jobs.  \n8.Improving college graduates'abilities and success rates in their jobs(through improvedreading,writing,arithmetic,reasoning,and problem solving skills).  \n9.Increasing productivity and enable economic savings in Arkansas through theimprovements above.  \n(We estimate that 1 point improvement on the ACT is worth about $3 million to the state.)  \n## Our people\n\nOur group consists of four Arkansas educators:Steve Leake,Charity Smith,Victor Haislop,and Anthony Gagliardo.  \nSteve has trained students for the ACT for 30 years,half that time with The Princeton Reviewand half independently.Charity has trained students for 20 years for the ACT and served asPresident of the Arkansas ACT Council and national facilitator for states'implementation of theuniversal ACT.Victor is a professor of Spanish at UALR with 20 years'teaching experience.Anthony is an engineer by training who ran the Sylvan Learning Center in Little Rock for 10years.  \nSteve,Victor,and Anthony established Edsortium.com three years ago,an online live andinteractive training platform on which Steve has helped students around the country raise ACTScores.  \nThe four principals have formed a partnership dedicated to the AR1ACT proposal.  \n# History of ACT Prep in Arkansas\n\nThe ACT originated in 1959 as an alternative to the SAT.Arkansas,like many Southeasternand Midwestern States,became an early and constant adopter of the ACT.  \nFor many years,students in Arkansas and around the 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