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6 Dec

Connecticut Students: PSAT Scores Are Back – What do the PSAT scores mean?

Even things that are not fun seem far better if “normalcy” is coming post-Covid. It turns out that “not-striving” is not good for mental health. Those in their teens do best when striving and building. Today, the PSATs came back for Connecticut students and parents are contacting The Learning Consultants related to test prep. The […]

6 Dec

Our SAT Prep: Help your child fill Covid education gaps

SAT ACT Test Prep

Covid has created massive learning gaps. Despite what seems to be collective misgivings about what is taught in school, there is no doubt that the fundamentals (the three Rs reading, writing. aRithmetic) do matter. Perhaps the biggest misconceptions propagated by those who do not understand the SAT (or ACT) is that the test can be […]

4 Feb

Parental Involvement – the key to educational success

General Education Advice

Parent involvement (setting standards, guiding/teaching/helping) is the most significant determinant of educational success. In running The Learning Consultants for nearly twenty years, I declare this statement with certainty. Yes, I’m sensitive to wealth inequality and certainly those who find The Learning Consultants are in the Connecticut and Westchester County leafy suburbs. Nonetheless my observation […]

18 Dec

Education in the time of Covid

General Education Advice

A recent study from McKinsey – which some of you know as having the best and brightest consultants – concluded what most anyone who is far from the best and brightest already know: our children’s education is being decimated during Covid. 20 years ago, I started teaching college classes online. Online teaching was revolutionary at […]

20 Jun

Connecticut Covid Summer: Help Your Children Build Themselves

General Education Advice

There will be an education gap. But this gap will not be exclusively due to Covid creating three months of terrible schooling for most. Instead, there will be a distinct gap between those children who developed themselves during Covid and those that did not. And, of course, while parents cannot take all the credit or […]

Covid

Connecticut Students: PSAT Scores Are Back – What do the PSAT scores mean?

Our SAT Prep: Help your child fill Covid education gaps

Parental Involvement – the key to educational success

Education in the time of Covid

Connecticut Covid Summer: Help Your Children Build Themselves

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