he new school year will be here before you know it, so what do you want to do better this year than last year? Do you want to be better organized? Get better grades? What about having more time [...]
espite being a former Ivy League admissions director, Debra Felix of Felix Educational Consulting doesn’t have an Ivy League-or-bust attitude. She has the patience to give complicated kids [...]
f you want to write good stuff but have no interest in the genre of college admissions essays, read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. If college is in your family’s future, read On Writing [...]
ur friends at The Learning Agency have created an online course, Learn Better: The New Science of Learning to Learn, to help people learn to do stuff better, whatever their life stage. If [...]
f you’re pretty sure you’re gonna get into Harvard but you’re still wondering whether you’ll have time to play on this foosball table once you get there, why not start practicing better time [...]
ots of independent college counselors are familiar with an amazing number of colleges that you and I have never heard of, and Rebecca Claster of Claster Educational Services is certainly one of [...]
n the five years since I decided to start a study skills and academic coaching business based on practical applications of the science of learning, there’ve been two celebrated mainstream books [...]
ur students earn straight As using all types of school supplies, but this combination makes it easiest to review every class every week, which is the key to earning better grades in less time! [...]
hether your school year started a week ago or a month ago, you’ve probably figured out that you need to make a few adjustments to how you approach your classes and other responsibilities. Maybe a [...]
eyond checking lots of boxes and writing lots of essays, applying to college these days requires staying motivated and keeping calm. Jodi Siegel of College Bound excels at providing that balance. [...]