Who is “The Wiz?
Bob Alexander, The Wiz, has been a teacher and educator since 1968. In 1991, he joined Kaplan Educational Centers as a director. School administrators who knew him encouraged him to share his expertise with teachers by offering teacher-training programs focused on raising standardized test scores. In 1994, he resigned from Kaplan to do teacher training and develop test preparation courses. The first one was the SAT and the second was the ACT. Schools that have replaced the Kaplan program with Demystifying Standardized Tests have reported much better results for far less money. In 1998, he published his first preparation book for the high school FCAT (Florida’s required graduation test). Since then he has developed books for the elementary and middle school FCAT tests. Schools have experienced greatly improved student scores and school ratings when they use his program. The Wiz spends most of his time doing teacher training and helping schools raise their standardized test scores. The r
