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Michaela O.:  A Military Move Brings Academic Challenges

Michaela O.: A Military Move Brings Academic Challenges

Sergeant Master Michael O. of the U.S. Marines has moved every four years of his 26-year military career.   During his last move, from Georgia to Virginia, he brought his wife and two daughters along.  Once his older daughter Michaela was enrolled in her new school she immediately found that the new curriculum was challenging and [...]

Hitting the Middle School Algebra Wall

Hitting the Middle School Algebra Wall

The majority of the million online tutoring sessions Tutor.com provides each year are in math and more specifically in algebra. Over the last decade, students take algebra earlier and earlier. Today, we find most middle school students are enrolled in pre-algebra or algebra classes. So we were interested in reviewing a new study from Harvard [...]

Success Story: Kiara W. Keeps her Straight A’s

Success Story: Kiara W. Keeps her Straight A’s

In our ongoing Success Story series about how military families are using Tutor.com, we were lucky enough to meet Elizabeth and Kiara W. Elizabeth grew up in a military family as a self-described “military brat” and is now a military spouse living with her family on Edwards Air Force Base.  Her husband is currently serving [...]

Success Story: Chris L. Masters Movie-Making and Pre-Calculus

Success Story: Chris L. Masters Movie-Making and Pre-Calculus

We love hearing from students who are using our service. And we love it even more when students are so excited about having access to live, expert tutoring that they want to tell their friends about it. A few weeks ago, we found out that Chris L. a Senior from Fort Sam Houston had made [...]

Meet our Director of Client Care: Susan Del Rosario

Meet our Director of Client Care: Susan Del Rosario

When we founded Tutor.com over a decade ago, a guiding principle was to recruit and keep great people. From our community of 2,500 tutors to our staff, we have a dynamic, diverse group whose goal is to help students of all ages learn better. One shining example of finding and keeping fabulous folks is Susan [...]

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My first experience at ALA Midwinter

03 February 2012

We were excited to kick off 2012 at ALA Midwinter this past January. It was great to catch up with clients and meet a lot of new people. One of the things that made this conference particularly fun was that it was the first ALA MW for Bob Bonocore, one of our Client Services Managers. [...]

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Brad Williams Joins Tutor.com

01 February 2012

Please join us in welcoming Brad Williams to the Tutor.com team! Coming onboard as the Higher Education Director of Sales, Brad brings a wealth of experience and has a clear understanding of the challenges many schools face specifically in the areas of retention and remediation.  His perspective will help us to continue developing and expanding [...]

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Tutor.com Reads: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

31 January 2012

Have you ever come across a story and thought to yourself, “How did I not know about this already?” Our latest book club read, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was exactly that type of story. Written by Rebecca Skloot, this work of nonfiction blends human interest and science to share with readers the life [...]

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Tutor.com. After-school Online Tutoring? Yes. SES? No.

23 January 2012

As a fierce debate continues around the pros and cons of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), we’re also hearing more about supplemental educational services or SES. This is the tutoring component of NCLB. Tutor.com is often mistaken as an SES provider by K-12 administrators and teachers. Tutor.com is NOT an SES provider. Many years ago, [...]

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Meg Sauvé Joins Tutor.com

09 January 2012

Welcome Meg Sauvé, our newest Client Services Manager for Military and Federal Programs! Meg , a South Carolina native, graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, attended Officer Candidate School, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps in August 2003. Following extensive training in Quantico, VA [...]

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Mentor of the Month: Tonya A.

06 January 2012

Once a month our team of mentors nominates a ‘Tutor of the Month’, but every so often we turn the tables on them and ask our tutors to nominate a mentor of the month. Guiding our tutors and providing them feedback, our mentors are an integral part in maintaining our high tutoring standards. This month, [...]

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What we’re Reading Now

04 January 2012

As the year draws to a close it always seems to get a bit quieter. That gave us plenty of time to catch up on some end-of-year reading. Trends we tracked during the last month of the year included reports about the rise of community colleges, the billion reasons why libraries are still important, and [...]

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Tutor.com’s Best Posts of 2011

29 December 2011

Over the past year, we have profiled many of our tutors, featured amazing success stories from students around the country and shared exciting new products and updates with you from the Tutor.com blog. Before we officially move into 2012, we took a look back to see which posts you read the most. So here they [...]

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Tutor.com: The Best of 2011

Tutor.com: The Best of 2011

21 December 2011

We love all the “best of” lists that are so popular this time of year. It reminds us to take a break and reflect on all that we’ve accomplished. 2011 in a word was awesome. We are lucky to work with a great group of dedicated librarians, teachers, administrators, military members, families, students, tutors and [...]

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Happy Holidays from Tutor.com

Happy Holidays from Tutor.com

15 December 2011

This season we asked students for help so that we could help others. For our Annual Holiday Giving Program, we ask students to vote for one of three worthy charities that help students or are run by students. This year more than 650 students participated and voted for their favorite organization. They also shared why [...]

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Academy Awards for Libraries

14 December 2011

Post contributed by Lauren Lobdell our Client Services Manager for libraries, corporations and colleges. There was no red carpet or statuettes of little gold men, but the excitement, passion and moving speeches felt just like the Academy Awards—for librarians.   The “I Love My Librarian Award Ceremony” took place last Thursday at the Times Center in [...]

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Tutor.com Reads: Ready Player One

13 December 2011

The not so distant future is one of our Book Club’s favorite time frames. Just far away enough to incite images of a futuristic world, but not so far that it’s completely foreign to the culture we live in now. Our latest book club read, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, was smack dab in [...]

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