Sentences with phrase «tutoring firms in»

Other online tutoring firms in the United States adopt varied approaches.

Tutor House, a private tutoring firm in London, claims that head teachers would allow term - time holidays if teachers were taken with them.

Not exact matches

Another China - based tutoring firm, TAL Education, gained 50 % in its first day of trading on the NYSE two weeks earlier.

It's no surprise, then, that the online tutoring industry is expected to generate $ 28 billion in revenue during the 2008 - 09 school year, according to Eduventures, an education - consulting firm.

In part this reflects the fact that private tutoring firms, including marquee names like Kaplan, Sylvan, and the Princeton Review, are eager to carve slices from this new market.

And many states were late in designating the firms that could provide after - school tutoring, with the result that districts, once again, had less time to notify parents.

Private - sector providers received $ 400 million in federal money for what are called supplemental educational services in 2005 - 06, according to a new report on K - 12 tutoring by Eduventures, a Boston - based market - research firm.

As Politico noted when the program was announced in 2013, the options available through Course Choice are impressive in their diversity:» [Students] might, for instance, take algebra from a math tutoring firm, ACT prep from Princeton Review, pipefitting from a construction trade association, French from an online public school... or all of the above.»

A firm believer in advancing the development of others through her own professional experience, Tracy is widely recognized as a leader amongst her peers and has lent her expertise and guidance broadly through service roles ranging from school reform committees to developing peer tutoring programs to school improvement teams to numerous curriculum committees.

A simple search for online tutoring firms should reveal a number of opportunities; mainly in the realm of helping students with school curriculum.

At the same time, if a firm does take on a student, again, the business model becomes, «what is the return on investment» — such that students are often utilized as cheap labor as opposed to being tutored in a professional manner befitting our professional obligation which is assuring the public interest and our own collective reputation, and not always about billing for their time.

Mariana heads the Pro Bono initiative at the firm, including the firm's participation with the Washington Lawyer's Committee's D.C. Public School Partnership Program, which matches area law firms with individual public schools in the city to bring tutoring, mentoring, other programs and services to thousands of children.

Also, the firm has just been approved as a licensed tutoring provider in California under the federal No Child Left Behind law.