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12/20/2020

Math teachers in search of a new position: 35 new vacancies all over the country posted in December. Contact me for tips and coaching for your job search.

Are you looking for a tutor for the ACT/SAT/GRE/GMAT or school math? On Math Accomplished you can connect to an experienced tutor and find advice, news, and daily math problems to improve your scores.

12/20/2020

3 COVID-19 education trends set to persist post-pandemic
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12/20/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced uncertainty into major aspects of national and global society, including for schools. For example, there is uncertainty about how school closures last spring impacted student achievement, as well as how the rapid conversion of most instruction to an online platfo...

09/14/2020

As a teen, Faria Sana often highlighted books with markers. “The colors were supposed to tell me different things.” Later, she recalls, “I had no idea what those highlighted texts were supposed to mean.”

08/19/2020

I’ve spoken with well over 100 parents in the past week, and every single one has expressed some version of this dilemma. They come to me because my business partner and I run New York City’s only tutoring company where all of the tutors are classroom teachers. People used to call me with a spec...

08/19/2020

As stressful as it always is for students applying to college, this year it's all that — and then some — for the admissions officials trying to decide whether to admit them. Because of the pandemic, many students will be applying without standardized test scores and several other metrics admissi...

08/07/2020

When the dean of the Darden School of Business was a senior in high school, he did what everyone who wanted to go to college has to do: He sat for the SAT exam. Scott Beardsley remembers it well. It was the start of the winter in Anchorage, Alaska, and he got through the math part of the exam and th...

08/07/2020

Shaan Patel is among 0.02% of people who got a perfect score on the SAT.

One test changed Shaan's life. That test was the SAT and he got a perfect score. Shaan is in the .02% of people who've gotten a perfect score on the test.

08/06/2020

The world of standardized tests has undergone a major shakeup this year. Colleges and universities have abandoned the SAT and ACT requirements, but the beast is raising its head again. In the meantime, there is a matter of school personnel whose jobs might become redundant and school schedules that would need to change depending on outcome of this battle.

Tara Miller gets a lot of paper cuts. It’s a hazard of handling hundreds of answer sheets and packing them into boxes, which she has done many times over the past 15 years.

08/05/2020

If this were a normal summer, Katy Phinney and her colleagues would be organizing their Pre-K classrooms for the new school year, choosing classroom themes and wall décor. Instead, Phinney is worried about what Pre-K will look like if and when students return to classrooms. “My biggest concern is...