New Hourly Rates
Effective immediately, the hourly rate for private, individual tutoring will be increased to $60 per hour. Group rates will also increase; a fee schedule is …
Gold Academy
Another Yes!
A student I tutor received a 100 on a vocabulary quiz for the first time in his life. Awesome!! What’s more, and what’s much, much …
Yes!
For the first time in her life, a student I tutor received a grade on her math semester final higher than or equal to what …
Summer Is At An End
Well, time to get back to school. Some students (actually, their parents) have been really smart, and have gotten tutoring most every week this summer. …
Progress
Nice: worked with a student for only 6 hours, and helped get his SAT score up 90 points. Would have been even better if he’d …
Recent Good Experiences
Thursday, yesterday, had a good ending: two hours of tutoring for the SAT in which a student learned some effective ways to attack some math, …
Too Busy To Blog
Things have been busy lately, and so it has been difficult to do any decent blogging. This past Saturday, for example, I taught two hours …
A Need For Grammar
Students need to learn grammar. Seems like it is not taught anymore. Knowing grammar, being able to parse a sentence, knowing how to diagram a …
Math & Memorization 2
Of course, there are other reasons to memorize things, besides those I mentioned yesterday, and there are other things in math that should also be …
A Parent Speaks
After working with a fifth-grade student today, teaching her arithmetic via Elluminate’s vRoom, I received a nice note from her mother: Awesome math class today! …