While the 20%-50% revenue increases tutoring companies enjoyed in Fall 2015 are now squarely in the past, a number of folks have expressed concern that overall business is declining. Phones have quieted, demand has slowed, and anxiety has begun to surface among some of the test prep community. Theories abound over exactly why this […]
Read More »(The Journal) by Richard Chang. The College Board, which administers the SAT and Advanced Placement tests and programs, has teamed up with nonprofit Khan Academy to create preparatory materials and exercises for AP courses, to be available for free on Khan Academy’s website. Khan Academy will offer “free instructional videos, articles and practice exercises,” which […]
Read More »(Skoll) by Sarah Zak Borgman. Imagine that you only learned how to swim 75 percent? Or that you only learned how to ride your bike 75 percent? Or as a pilot, you only learned how to fly an airplane 75 percent? We’d likely feel the downside of partial mastery, with scrapes and bruises—or worse–along the […]
Read More »(Inside Higher Education) by Jim Jump. What’s your favorite Steve Buscemi moment? It’s hard to top the wood chipper scene from Fargo, but I’m partial to his definition of irony from Con Air. As a hijacked plane full of escaped convicts takes off with the convicts singing and dancing to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Buscemi’s character wryly […]
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