School's Lunch and Learn Program Intends to Improve Test Scores

For three weeks now, several students at Chinook High School have been trading the leisure of a lunch hour for ACT test preparation. After noticing a trend in declining test scores and unsuccessful retake attempts to raise a low score, Chinook's Improvement Plan for Schools (ChIPS) Team decided an intervention was in order. From their brainstorming with the administration, ACT-uesdays Lunch and Learn was born.

"Although the core subject teachers (math, English, and science) are all performing good work in their classrooms, we wanted a more comprehensive approach to improving ACT scores," ChIPS...