Score At The Top Blog

It’s often the case that following the long summer break, students return to the classroom, seemingly having forgotten what they learned the previous academic year. This phenomenon, known as “summer slide,” is real, and could be magnified, say educators and parents, by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s a genuine concern. In today’s post, we’ll look at the current situation and share tips to help slow – or even prevent – academic loss. 

Topics: Summer School, Learning Loss, Coronavirus

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“If an investment is expected to depreciate by 30 percent in its first year and experience compounding losses every year thereafter, it’s probably not a sound venture.”

Topics: Tutoring, Summer School, Learning Loss

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The backdrop for summer vacation life is, for most students, missing one overwhelming element: school. Lots has been written and spoken about the pro’s and con’s of boxing away academic discipline in favor of “the beach” (an all-encompassing metaphor for the two and half straight months enjoyed outside any classroom).

Topics: ACT/SAT, Test-Prep, Summer School, College Planning

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Want to strengthen your academic record? Improve your GPA? Make up a failed course? Strengthen your chances for college admission? Then join us this summer by taking a course for academic credit with one of our gifted instructors!

Score At The Top offers courses for credit in a 1-on-1 or small group setting. Because our approach is so individualized, we can schedule courses at a student’s convenience – mornings, afternoons, evenings, and even weekends – and a student can start a course with us at any time. Our students can be certain that they will have the absolutely best possible learning environment, one that suits each one’s personal learning style.

Topics: Tutoring, Summer School, Private-School

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Summer! A time to relax? Perhaps, but not a time to let down your guard if you’re planning to apply to college within the next two or three years! While summer is a special time away from the pressures of the school year, and a time to have fun, it’s also an opportunity to enrich your life, and enhance your chances for college admission by doing something productive. And, yes, you can accomplish all three of them at the same time! You may say, OK, but summer is at least four months away and I’ve got plenty of time to plan. Wrong! Now is the time to research and apply to summer programs!

Topics: Tutoring, Summer School, Educational-Consulting, Summer

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