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Reservist Family Stays on Top of Honors Math with Tutor.com

Reservist Family Stays on Top of Honors Math with Tutor.com

Marine Corps Reservist, Lieutenant Colonel Brad Lanto has been part of the military for 20 years. While he works in the Pentagon as the Marine Corps Liaison for the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP) in Reserve Affairs, his wife and two children are back in North Carolina. We caught up with the Lt. Col. and [...]

Remediation Isn’t Working. Here’s How to Fix It.

Remediation Isn’t Working. Here’s How to Fix It.

The stats are staggering:  51.7% of students entering a 2-year college and 19.9% of students entering a 4-year college are in remediation. And of those taking remedial courses, only 62% of 2-year college students and 74.4% of 4-year college students complete remediation. Even fewer complete remediation and associated college-level courses within two years. With 1.7 [...]

Army Family Survives Pre-Calculus with Tutor.com

Army Family Survives Pre-Calculus with Tutor.com

Working with the U.S. Military has led our team to some exotic locations (Hawaii!), but most importantly as we travel to events across the country we always meet amazing people. One of these inspiring individuals is Patty Barron, the Director of Family Programs for the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). Patty’s energy and [...]

Tutor.com for the New Generation of Teachers: Live Coaching

Tutor.com for the New Generation of Teachers: Live Coaching

Tutor.com is well-known in education circles for our on-demand, one-to-one, tutoring solutions for students. Not long ago, we started seeing an interesting trend with our student services— teachers were connecting with tutors and they loved the experience. Those early teacher comments helped us create a new type of professional development service, MyLivePD™ Online Coaching Service. [...]

A Partnership That Continues to Grow

A Partnership That Continues to Grow

In 2006 the College of Coastal Georgia realized it had a problem. As a 2-year college at the time, it was running out of on-campus tutors to satisfy their students’ need for extra academic support. With its tutoring centers daily at capacity, the College of Coastal Georgia realized it needed a program that could augment [...]

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Thank a Military Family this Memorial Day Weekend

25 May 2012

Memorial Day Weekend here in New York City promises to be full of sunshine and blue skies. While many of us will be enjoying the rites of the unofficial summer kick-off, we will more importantly take time to remember and honor the many men, women and children who have served our country. It has been [...]

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Tutor of the Month: Rebecca F.

22 May 2012

Each month our team of mentors nominates a “Tutor.com Tutor of the Month”. We are pleased to introduce this month’s Tutor of the Month, Rebecca F! After relocating to a new state Rebecca F. decided to stay at home full-time with her three kids. However, she missed the daily student- teacher relationships she had back [...]

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Honoring Commitment to Military Spouses with MSEP

18 May 2012

As “Enduring Corporate Partners” of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP), we were invited to attend yesterday’s ceremony in the Pentagon inner courtyard to honor the new group of companies and organizations joining the organization. Companies like Tutor.com, Amazon.com, General Dynamics, The Home Depot, and a few dozen more were previously inducted into the Military [...]

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Tutor.com Reads: The Slap

15 May 2012

For this month’s Tutor.com Reads post, book club newcomer Cardine Caffery, Graphic Designer and Australian native, reviews her first book club pick and tries to confuse us with talk of Utes and shouts. After being part of the book club for one short month I was taken by surprise when asked to pick our next [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

11 May 2012

Whether they are out saving the world or at home managing the household, mothers always seem to know best. And what’s best can be anything from getting a batch of cookies sent to your office, a much needed hug, or getting homework help from the right place. So this year we are celebrating Mother’s Day [...]

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Thanking Our Teachers

08 May 2012

The National Education Association summed it up nicely in their #thankateacher sample tweets: “if you can write your name, if you can read, and if you followed your dream, then there is a teacher you can thank.” From the simplest tasks to the most complicated concepts, teachers are there to help us learn.  And often [...]

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What We’re Reading Now

04 May 2012

April was the Month of the Military Child, National Library week, and a variety of holidays from Earth Day, to Poem in your Pocket Day, to Patriots Day. Even though it was full of events, the debates on remediation in college, flipped K-12 classrooms, and e-tablets continued on. Those debates and more were the focus [...]

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What Kind of Poem is in Your Pocket?

26 April 2012

Today is Poem in Your Pocket day. A day to keep a poem close to you and celebrate this art form with family, friends or classmates. “What makes something a poem?” you may ask. Poetry is about any topic, takes any shape, and can be of any length. There is classic form, like iambic pentameter [...]

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Tutor of the Month: Hope W.

25 April 2012

Each month our team of mentors nominates a “Tutor.com Tutor of the Month”. We are pleased to introduce this month’s Tutor of the Month, Hope W! From Idaho to South Carolina, from kayaking to hockey, from Algebra to Biology, Hope W. leads a very busy life. Yet her motto is to keep it simple. Whether [...]

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MyLivePD: A Trusted Planning Partner for Busy Teachers like Mat Doty

17 April 2012

Every week millions of teachers spend time planning out lessons that will engage a classroom of students. Mat Doty, a ninth grade teacher at the Crossroads Center, an alternative education center that is part of the Baltimore County Public School System, is one of those teachers. But, Mat doesn’t have to plan alone.  Mat has [...]

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Tutor.com PURPLES UP for Month of the Military Child

13 April 2012

This year Operation Homefront declared April 13th PURPLE UP day to show your support for Military Children. Once Tutor.com got wind of it, we knew we wanted to participate. So, today we got a few members of the Tutor.com team to wear their various shades of purple: eggplant, lavender, violet, etc. Luckily enough we were [...]

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Notable <3 Library Quotables

13 April 2012

Tomorrow marks the end of National Library Week 2012 and we’ve had a great time these last few days recognizing all our libraries have to offer. We thought a fun way to close out the week would be to share some quotes from prominent figures that celebrate what libraries mean to them. From members of [...]

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