Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't. These latest volumes in the critically-acclaimed Get Ready For Standardized Tests series arm parents with proven tools and techniques to help assess their children's basic reading skill levels; pinpoint their specific problem areas; reinforce their proficiency; gauge their progress; and instill them with the confidence and test-taking know-how needed to shine on virtually any standardized test.

One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math. Yet the core math skills acquired in the first four years of school form the basis of all future academic success. Get Ready for Standardized Tests, the first and only grade-specific test prep series, now features hands-on guidance on helping kids master the all-important basic math skills while arming parents with the tools they need to help their children succeed.

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TIME Magazine
November 12, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 20

• COVER: The Best Inventions Of the Year - Your Guide to the Most Interesting New Products and Ideas of 2007
• NATION: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing - Congress's new farm bill is bad for the country's economy, environment, and rural towns. Naturally, it's a shoo-in
• WORLD: The Don Quixote of Darfur - Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, is ready to try his first Darfur war-crimes case. If only it were that easy
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Staph on the March - The deadly bacteria are beginning to emerge in schools