Teaching Your Child Important Life Skills 150 150 Kristen

Teaching Your Child Important Life Skills

There’s no doubt your child is learning invaluable skills each day in school. However, there are many aspects of life that are not always taught in the classroom. Taking some time to make sure your child acquires basic, yet important, life skills throughout their adolescence can give them a step ahead in life. Below are…

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Taking College Courses in High School Teaching Staff

Taking College Courses in High School

If you’re planning on going to college after graduating high school, you may want to consider getting started early. Many schools allow students to take advanced placement courses for college credits. While these classes will certainly be more challenging, and possibly more time-consuming, than your regular classes, there are also some benefits to taking them.…

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Common Signs of a Learning Disability 150 150 Kristen

Common Signs of a Learning Disability

Does your child dread heading to school each morning? Do you notice that your child avoids homework or becomes easily upset or frustrated while working on schoolwork? While it’s true that almost every child will struggle at some point in their academic career, if your child is consistently struggling in a specific area it could…

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Look Beyond Statistics When Choosing a College Teaching Staff

Look Beyond Statistics When Choosing a College

Once you start scoping out colleges, the sheer wealth of technical information you’re sure to find can be overwhelming. While learning as much as you can about potential schools, your decision doesn’t rest solely on the number of students at the school, the average test scores of admitted students, the percentage of students the school…

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What Happens When Your Child is the Bully? 150 150 Kristen

What Happens When Your Child is the Bully?

Raising children is difficult. After all, they don’t come with a manual and as a parent you are presented with new situations and obstacles each day. Finding out your child is being bullied can be maddening, disheartening and stressful. Finding out your child is the bully will likely bring on a whole new gamut of…

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When and How to Start Your College Search Teaching Staff

When and How to Start Your College Search

To some students your junior year may seem far too early to begin your college search. With two years of high school left, it may seem like you have more than enough time. However, your junior year is actually one of the most important of your high school career. But it’s not just a question…

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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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