What Colleges Look for in Applicants Teaching Staff

What Colleges Look for in Applicants

As you’re entering your junior year of high school, you may have an idea of what you’d like to study in college. Or you may just have an idea of where you’d like to attend college. Even if you’re not sure about that, you most likely are still concerned about getting accepted into a college.…

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SchoolTutoring.com Creates Educational Posters for Preschool & Kindergarten Classrooms 150 150 Emma Taylor

SchoolTutoring.com Creates Educational Posters for Preschool & Kindergarten Classrooms

click this image to help fund our educational poster project at Kickstarter.com SchoolTutoring Academy has launched a campaign to provide posters to pre-school and kindergarten teachers for decorating their classrooms. The project will promote literacy in young students and support teachers by supplying them with educational materials. The goal of this project is to interest…

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Bullying: How to Recognize It and What to Do About It 150 150 Kristen

Bullying: How to Recognize It and What to Do About It

We’ve all experienced it at one time or another, whether we were a victim, a bystander or a perpetrator. Sometimes it seems as though bullying and being bullied are just a way of life for students. But bullying often has many serious, negative consequences. A child who is being bullied may be physically or emotionally…

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How to Guess Smarter 150 150 Teaching Staff

How to Guess Smarter

In a perfect world, when you sit down to take the ACT or SAT, you’ll understand every question and be able to figure out every correct answer. But let’s face it: this isn’t a perfect world and you’re probably not going to achieve a perfect score. But that doesn’t mean you can’t earn a very…

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Getting Ready to Go Back to School 150 150 Kristen

Getting Ready to Go Back to School

At this point you and your littles one have probably been enjoying the lazy days of summer and gotten into the habit of being on vacation. With just a few weeks before most schools start, your vacation will be over before you know it. Getting ready for going back to school ahead of time will…

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Helping Your Child Transition to Middle School 150 150 Kristen

Helping Your Child Transition to Middle School

Graduating from grade school and transitioning into middle school is a big step for your child. It can also be a very scary, intimidating step. There are many new aspects of middle school that are very different from your child’s former school. New teachers, moving in between classrooms during the day, using lockers and meeting…

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Choosing a Career Path While in High School 150 150 Kristen

Choosing a Career Path While in High School

High school may seem way too early to start thinking about a potential career. Your child is probably focused on thinking about the SATs, applying to colleges and keeping their grades high. With four years of high school, and possibly four years or more of college to complete, do students really need to consider choosing…

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New York State Regents Exams 150 150 Callie

New York State Regents Exams

If you live outside of New York, chances are you’ve never heard of them. And if you live in New York, chances are you know them all too well. What are Regents Exams? Regents Exams are approximately three-hour tests given across specific subjects to prove each student’s proficiency with the common core learning standards. The…

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How to Study for the SAT Teaching Staff

How to Study for the SAT

The dreaded SAT. With the time people spend talking about the SAT and how important this test will be for you, the test can seem a little intimidating. While the test is an important step in your educational career, it doesn’t have to be the stressful event most students make it out to be. If…

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The Truth About Plagiarism Teaching Staff

The Truth About Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a serious offense and it’s important to follow the proper steps in citing work from other sources. Never try to pass off someone else’s work as your own – that’s plagiarism! If you get caught plagiarizing someone else’s work in your own paper or essay, the punishment can be severe. In high school,…

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How to Prepare for the ACT Mathematics Test Teaching Staff

How to Prepare for the ACT Mathematics Test

In order to prepare for the ACT math test, you need to first understand what the math test really is. The official description is “a 60-question, 60-minute test designed to measure the mathematical skills students have typically acquired in courses taken by the end of 11th grade.” The idea is that you will use reasoning…

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How to Enjoy a Fun and Educational Summer Vacation 150 150 Kristen

How to Enjoy a Fun and Educational Summer Vacation

When school lets out for the summer and the sunshine is here to stay, you and your children may both be looking forward to a few months without school. However, the thought of everything your child learned in school this year slowly slipping away might just be too much for you. Summertime is still the…

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Having Fun (and Learning) on Summer Break 150 150 Callie

Having Fun (and Learning) on Summer Break

Worried about your child falling behind over summer break? Don’t want to waste a great opportunity for your child to continue learning and growing mentally and emotionally? Then help turn your child’s summer break into a fun, activity-filled opportunity. It’s definitely important to still give your child free time throughout the summer. A big part…

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Community College: Is it Right For You? Teaching Staff

Community College: Is it Right For You?

As the end of your high school career grows closer, you’ve probably already started thinking about what you are going to do next. If you’ve decided to continue your education, the next big decision is what school to attend, or more importantly, what kind of school to attend. For many students, a four-year degree at…

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Apps to Help You Prepare for the SAT Teaching Staff

Apps to Help You Prepare for the SAT

With today’s technological innovations SAT prep and studying doesn’t have to be limited to the classroom or study sessions. While you are surely devoting a good amount of time to traditional studying, it may help to try out a new study method and change your surroundings a little. With a plethora of apps available for…

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Understanding and Supporting the Common Core 150 150 Kristen

Understanding and Supporting the Common Core

Schools in the United States come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and because of this it becomes hard to hard to compare students from one school against students in another to make sure everyone is on track and learning the correct skills. The Common Core standards were created to help address this issue.…

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Copyright Law on Campus 150 150 Callie

Copyright Law on Campus

Before your teenager heads off to college, it’s a good idea to have a discussion with him about copyright law. In high school, your child undoubtedly learned about plagiarism, which is an academic crime of pretending to be the creator of someone else’s work. The punishment for plagiarism is generally determined by schools, but can…

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Important Study Habits for High Schoolers 150 150 Kristen

Important Study Habits for High Schoolers

High school can be a busy and stressful time in a young person’s life. With classes, homework, extracurriculars, preparing for important tests like the SAT, searching for and visiting colleges and more, high school can be overwhelming for students. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Establishing good study, time management and organizational skills…

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Choosing between the SAT and the ACT Teaching Staff

Choosing between the SAT and the ACT

With the end of your high school career nearly in sight, you may have your college choices narrowed down to a few or you may even have an idea of the degree you’d like to pursue, but there may still be one question on your mind – should you take the SAT or the ACT?…

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The Importance of Family Meals 150 150 Callie

The Importance of Family Meals

Remember those old television shows where Mom cooks a big dinner and the whole family sits down together to eat at the table? Now let’s think about reality, where you have to balance busy schedules, practices, work, demanding homework assignments, extracurricular activities, and so much more. It’s hard to find a moment to breathe, let…

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