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Congratulations to Carolyn Dunn for dedicating so much of her time this month and becoming our Tutor of the Month for February! Great job Carolyn!

Congratulations to our first 2016 Tutor of the Month, Ai Vy Nguyen. Thank you for all your service and your support!

Congratulations to our December Tutor of the Month, Matthew HaseLiu with 35 hours of volunteering in 34 sessions! Thank you for all the hard work over the holiday season!

Congratulations to our November Tutor of The Month, Daniel! Daniel put in many hours to help out our students and the response from them was extremely positive!

"You made me better understand this concept way more than my teacher."

"Very patient and polite!"

Thanks Daniel for being such an ideal and empowering tutor!

Incredibly moving video of a man playing Imagine on a piano in Paris right after the terrorist attacks. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-pianist-perform-john-lennons-imagine-outside-paris-bataclan-20151114

Watch Pianist Perform John Lennon's 'Imagine' Outside Paris' Bataclan Mysterious musician delivers poignant version of Beatle's 1971 classic as mourners gather at site of massacre

Today in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States!

Also, congratulations to our October Tutor of the Month, Mary Bergwell! Thanks so much Mary!
"Loved how fast my tutor replied, really seemed like she wanted to help me. Overall fantastic!" -A student Mary tutored

Have a spooky everyone! http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/opinion/this-halloween-be-the-talk-of-the-party.html?ref=topics&referer=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/halloween/index.html

http://nj1015.com/rutgers-camden-financially-confident-with-tuition-waiver-program/

Rutgers-Camden: We can afford to give free tuition It seems like a pricey task – handling half or all of tuition costs for the majority of incoming freshmen. But Rutgers-Camden says they have the money to do it, and the class of 2021 will be covered all the way to graduation.

Has testing in our school system become too much? The Obama Administration thinks so, and they urge schools to make exams more purposeful and less onerous. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/obama-administration-calls-for-limits-on-testing-in-schools.html?_r=0

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/guest-comment/2015/10/how-to-bridge-the-business-education-gap.html

How to bridge the business-education gap, according to the Philadelphia Society of Human... A huge competency gap exists between students graduating from school and the businesses that need them.

Released by the Department of Education last week:

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-awards-more-4-million-support-underrepresented-students-gifted-and-talented-programs

U.S. Department of Education Awards More Than $4 Million to Support Underrepresented Students in... The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $4 million to 11 states to focus on increasing the number of minority and other underrepresented students in gifted and talented programs.