Business Update
- I'm considering moving the High School Readiness seminars to earlier in the summer (mid-July to mid-August).
- As we get into warmer days, make sure you grab a sweater when you come to the office - the air conditioning takes its job seriously.
Resources
For all of you writing research and other papers requiring MLA style, here's your (hopefully not late-night) online source for answers. You're welcome.
Biology students, especially those of you planning to take the Biology SAT II, do yourselves a favor...!
Spend at least 20 minutes each night noodling around this site. You'll thank yourself later. View videos and web pages - not downloads! - about DNA structure to protein synthesis to genetic mutations. Click on the Inheritance link at the top to get information about meiosis and mitosis, Mendelian genetics, and, obviously, inheritance. Taking the "E" version of the SAT II? Then you MUST click on the Ecology link at the top and review populations, ecological succession, competition, and zebra mussels. :)
Spend at least 20 minutes each night noodling around this site. You'll thank yourself later. View videos and web pages - not downloads! - about DNA structure to protein synthesis to genetic mutations. Click on the Inheritance link at the top to get information about meiosis and mitosis, Mendelian genetics, and, obviously, inheritance. Taking the "E" version of the SAT II? Then you MUST click on the Ecology link at the top and review populations, ecological succession, competition, and zebra mussels. :)
I really love Dr. Hallowell's work, particularly the verbs in his advice: "parenting," "superparenting," "raising," "releasing positive energy" - OK that one is a verb phrase. Anyway, a parent recently reminded me of an excerpt of Driven to Distraction in which author John Irving discusses his learning issues. Good stuff.
Tips & Strategies
A former client, who is now in college, told me that he no longer "wills papers not to exist," as I often say. Instead of procrastinating and throwing together eleventh-hour efforts with ugly results, he says he now spends calmer time while he's at the gym or walking around campus thinking about his paper and planning his ideas. Wise kid.Don't be afraid - it's only scary if you ignore it!
Lean on Each Other
Kids, this time of the year, it's easy to linger in the sunlight and lose momentum on your obligations. I encourage you to cheer for each other, study together, review together, split and distribute your own study guides - assemble a team to get you through!
News & Research
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers' union announced a deal to reassign most of the teachers now in so-called "rubber rooms" to administrative or nonclassroom work while their cases are pending. Officials also agreed to increase the number of arbitrators who hear teachers' cases from 23 to 39, and said they hope to catch up with backlogged cases by the end of the year.
Scroll down a bit and click on Complete College Rankings for the results of its analysis based on the following types of data: student evaluations of courses and instructors, number of alumni listed among the notable people in Who’s Who in America, amount of student debt at graduation, percentage of students graduating in four years, and the number of students or faculty, who have won nationally competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes.
