AJ Tutoring blog - The Learning Curve

Strong grades certainly help during private school admissions, but they’re only part of the picture. Admissions teams are also evaluating maturity, curiosity, character, and readiness for a rigorous academic environment. Interviews, writing samples, teacher recommendations, and standardized ...

Parents may be hearing a new phrase from schools and educators: high-dosage tutoring. The term can sound a little clinical, but the basic idea is straightforward. Instead of meeting with a tutor occasionally or only when a major test is approaching, a student receives consistent, structured ...

I often work with students who have a strong preference for either the humanities or STEM and struggle to see the relevance of one subject to the other. As a physics tutor, I can attest that reading comprehension is a skill that is vital to understanding textbooks, parsing word problems, and ...

It feels like just yesterday when you were dropping them off to their first day of Kindergarten, and now they are about to be pre-teens and enter the wild world of middle school. Middle school is often the first time students are expected to manage multiple teachers, long-term assignments, and ...