by Dawn Oliver | Jan 1, 2016 | Education
Does Your Child Need an Academic Coach? There is a Hallmark card commercial that comes to mind whenever I think about coaches. In the commercial, a basketball star in school, 25 years later, travels to find her former teammates to collect signatures on a thank you...
by Dawn Oliver | Dec 1, 2015 | Education
Do Executive Functioning Skills Trump Academics? When we place all of our focus solely on a student’s academic performance and attempt to “repair” poor performance by asking the student to study harder, read more, write with more descriptors, and put in more effort,...
by Dawn Oliver | Oct 1, 2015 | Education
Declining SAT Scores and Your Student According to the article, “Students bombed the SAT this year in Four Charts,” that appeared on September 2, 2015 in Bloomberg, SAT scores for the Class of 2015 were the lowest they have been in 40 years on the Critical Reading...
