“Private Tutoring, Live on the Web: The Perfect Solution for Today’s Busy Family (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)” plus 3 more |
- Private Tutoring, Live on the Web: The Perfect Solution for Today’s Busy Family (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
- At Compton school, teen tutors and adult students learn from each other (Los Angeles Times)
- Fascinating Fact (Hollywood.com)
- Morning Roundup (GOOD)
| Posted: 22 Mar 2010 04:00 AM PDT WholeStudent.com announced, today, the launch of its new online private tutoring service that provides students with private, professional tutoring - live on the web. Students can receive private tutoring in Math, English and Science from a certified teacher over the web just as they would face to face, in the convenience of their home. (PRWEB) March 22, 2010 -- WholeStudent.com announced, today, the launch of its new online private tutoring service that provides students with private, professional tutoring - live on the web. Students can receive private tutoring in Math, English and Science from a certified teacher over the web just as they would face to face, in the convenience of their home. Up until now, parents wanting to help their son or daughter improve grades had to drive them to a tutoring centre, or have a tutor come to their home. With the launch of its private online tutoring service, WholeStudent.com provides parents with a new tutoring option that is much more convenient for them, and, and appealing to their students. Live On the Web "I can work with students at WholeStudent.com, just as I would face to face – there's no difference" saysid Mr. Syed, a certified teacher and private tutor with WholeStudent.com. In online sessions, students and their private tutor talk, write on a shared whiteboard, use learning aids, mark up homework or a test just handed back, and do everything they would do in a classroom setting. 1 to 1 with a Certified Teacher Available Daily, to Build Strong Work Habits "Parents are looking for more than just a better grade on the next test, and so we responded with the Daily Coaching program" says Ross Downing, President of WholeStudent.com. " As our flagship program, it provides students with one on one tutoring and coaching every day after school, so they build the discipline, motivation, work and time management skills they need make a permanent improvement in grades" . Less intensive programs are available as well. The Private Tutoring program and the Homework Help program provide students with private tutoring three times each week and focus primarily on helping them master a struggle subject. Online Progress Reporting Using Grades Achieved A Powerful Online Learning Environment About WholeStudent.com ### WholeStudent.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| At Compton school, teen tutors and adult students learn from each other (Los Angeles Times) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 12:20 AM PDT Brandy Rice eyed the test question. She thought of what her tutor directed her to do: Read the entire sentence. Read all the answers. Instead of playing multiple-choice roulette with the answers as she had so many times before, she followed the directions. Rice, 26, was one of 20 Compton Adult School students in a tutoring program for the California High School Exit Examination. The tutors weren't teachers, but teenagers from Palos Verdes High School. The tutors carpooled from the green, laid-back beach community on a hill to Compton every Saturday for five weeks. Most had never before been to Compton and weren't used to getting up at 7 a.m. on a weekend. But their students taught them a thing or two about hard work, commitment and life. Senior Daniel Bethencourt, 18, who spearheaded the program, said tutoring adults broke down an assumption: It isn't easier to pass the exit exam when you're older. "Your life accelerates once you get out of high school," said Bethencourt, who is headed to Yale University in the fall. For the adults receiving tutoring, life has moved fast. Many have children and jobs. They are supporting family or taking care of ill relatives. But they all have the same regret: They didn't get a high school diploma. Marlo Williams, a stand-up comedian who said she has worked with Martin Lawrence, stopped going to high school at 16. She would have graduated in 1986, well before the exit exam became mandatory. At 18, she started caring for relatives' five children. Williams said not finishing school is "something that will weigh on a person with a conscience." She doesn't remember math being so complicated. "This math is totally different from the math when I was going to school," she said. During one tutoring session, Williams sniffled and fought back tears as her tutor, John Powers, attempted to explain fractions. She apologized for being absent-minded. She had two deaths in her family that week. Powers, 18, tried to comfort her. If he had experienced the same thing, he said, he wouldn't have come to tutoring. But Williams said: "I don't want to miss, because I know I need to do this." Powers, who will be joining the Navy, said he would do whatever it took to help Williams pass the exam. He said he had already seen some differences in the math portion. "She started realizing that it's a language and not some random numbers," he said. Melinda Connor, the coordinator for the GED program at Compton Adult School, said students of all age ranges enroll to take care of what she calls "unfinished business." The majority of those students will take the exam multiple times. Some miss the test by two points, some by 100. The exam, which became mandatory with the graduating class of 2006, is geared to eighth-grade level math and ninth- and 10th-grade level English. At Compton Adult School, five out of 41 students last March passed the math portion and 12 of 24 passed the language arts portion.
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| Fascinating Fact (Hollywood.com) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 07:15 AM PDT RUSSELL CROWE has undergone special tutoring from a voice coach to give him a perfect English accent for his leading role in upcoming movie ROBIN HOOD. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 22 Mar 2010 09:50 AM PDT  Morning Roundup:
From the Los Angeles Times: At Compton school, teen tutors and adult students learn from each other As part of a Compton Adult School tutoring program, adults trying to pass the California High School Exit Examination get an assist from Palos Verdes High students. From The New York Times' Week In Review: In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right In the fight over curriculum, conservatives in Texas have more in common with liberals than they think. From PBS' NewsHour: A new measure allowing college students to bypass banks and receive college aid directly from the government could pass alongside the health reform bill. Graphic via Rumors.
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