Today is your last chance to get an awesome deal on in-home reading tutoring and math tutoring from Kaplan Tutoring, which also includes an online assessment and four months of access to their online SmartTrack software. Our outstanding certified tutors, who travel to New York’s most kid friendly neighborhoods like TriBeCa, Chelsea, the Upper West [...]
At Kaplan, we can’t resist a good theme. That’s why in celebration of Cinco de Mayo today, we’re offering you 5 full weeks of Smart Track for only $5. That’s right — $5. (We’re pretty sure you can’t find Mexican hot chocolate for as sweet a price!).
We celebrated the first day of summer on Monday with Dave’s soon-to-be-famous, festive cupcakes. Too cute not to share the recipe! Please share your recipes too, or let us know where you’ve found your favorite summer recipes.
Big thanks to Dave for sharing this great recipe!
Kaplan Test Prep conducted a survey about teens’ Facebook privacy settings that uncovered some very interesting results! The survey shows that many teens give their parents full Facebook access - true for your teen, too?
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest and oldest children’s literacy organization in the U.S., has been eliminated from the President’s proposed FY11 budget. Without federal funding, more than 4.4 million children and families will not receive free books or reading encouragement from RIF programs.
Did you know that Dyslexia doesn’t just mean flipping letters or reading backwards? It turns out that Dyslexia really describes an unexpected difficulty with reading, and over 85% of those reading difficulties stem from a common cause. Throughout this month, our local Kaplan Tutoring teams are hosting free Workshops for parents that focus on how to support kids with reading difficulties. Read on for Workshop dates and times in your area.
Has your child ever struggled with writing? Whose hasn’t! Our Writing Team and tutors have found that one of the biggest struggles for kids is how to brainstorm ideas and how to get those great ideas onto paper.
This is your child’s year to shine, and the beginning of the school year is the perfect time to help your student set the stage to achieve his or her goals. These 3 steps will help you and your child get started on new goals for the new school year.
Now that all of your Back to School shopping is complete and your child has every school supply under the sun, the only thing left to help prepare is… the actual homework! Here are tips on how to help with the homework challenges we hear most from students.
Tips for helping your child develop a can-do attitude this school year, brought to you by our guest blogger, Andrea Berlin, the Director of Academics at Kaplan Tutoring.