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Your Private College Counselor Can Help When Tests Are Biased
How do I ace a test, the SAT, or any standardized test? How can they expect me to know everything? What if I don’t have the skills or the advantages? They, whether a teacher, professor, ETS (Educational Testing Service), or the College Board, absolutely do not expect you to know Read More…
Vocabulary Proficiency for Younger Learners: Conversation and Engagement
“Just read!” “Memorize 100 words by Friday!” Even though most high school students miserably stare at one another just thinking about these daunting expectations in addition to every other demand of their academic work week, such dictates often reign supreme as the default vocabulary strategies of many educators and parents. Read More…
Get College Essay Help: Introductory Paragraphs
Prior to the adoption of Common Core, the No Child Left Behind approach to education reigned for over a decade, “relying too heavily on standardized tests” according to many critics. One of the policy’s greatest deficits was the abandonment of writing curricula throughout the nation’s districts, charter schools, and other Read More…
Get Test and Essay Help for Common Core SBAC
Parents, teachers, students, and schools in California are in a state of frenzy because the questions are mounting: What’s the deal with Common Core? What is the SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium)? Why weren’t we told sooner? Why are our students boycotting exams or literally throwing up because of the Read More…
Your Private College Counselor Gives You Better Critical Reading Skills
How many of us loath the stress and pressure of an ever-changing college entrance exam? An exam is necessary for admission into the U.S.’s most prestigious universities, and but may not indicate one’s success in college or life. That’s why you need a private college counselor! Regardless of our antipathy Read More…
Read These 5 Tips for Tutoring ESL Students: Essay Help, Test Prep, and More
Throughout my 15 years in education, I have confronted many obstacles related to teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to Hispanic students in the United States and Asian learners in the United States and Taiwan as a classroom teacher and private tutor. There are five core tips that an Read More…